A little Friday night rock…

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A little more music and poetry of John Trudell and Bad Dog tonight…

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Oh yes… It Is What It Is… John Trudell and Bad Dog…

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Stepping back to 1986 with Maria McKee and Lone Justice: Shelter…

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Lone Justice had a short run with only two album releases: Lone Justice and Shelter, both of which I thought were fabulous. I had them both on cassette. The CD’s are available import only now.

I was a big Eurythmics fan back in the day… One of my fav’s “Would I Lie To You”:

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And I’m still a big Annie Lennox fan now.

A little late night blues tonight from Howlin’ Wolf…Smokestack Lightning:

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A lovely version of Neko Case singing Harry Nilsson’s “Don’t Forget Me” on Elvis Costello’s Spectacle:

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Neko Case…

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Oh yeah.. “People Got a Lotta Nerve”… Yes they do.

** Cross posted from The Democratic Daily…

Bruce Springsteen’s new single “We Take Care Of Our Own,” off his upcoming CD, Wrecking Ball was released today.

ABC News notes, “judging from the names of the other tracks listed on the singers website — “This Depression,” “Easy Money,” and “Death to My Hometown” — Springsteen is once again wading in political waters and returning his focus to working-class issues.”

“We Take Care Of Our Own” is a hard hitting rocker, in true Springsteen / E Street Band style. As longtime readers here know, I am a big Springsteen fan and I have to say this new single simply blew me away musically and lyrically.

Watch the video debut here:

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Springsteen’s long-time manager Jon Landau said of Springsteen’s new work, “Bruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The lyrics tell a story you can’t hear anywhere else and the music is his most innovative in recent years. The writing is some of the best of his career and both veteran fans and those who are new to Bruce will find much to love on ‘Wrecking Ball.’”

Washington Post’s Click Track blog notes, Wrecking Ball is the 17th album of Springsteen’s career:

The social commentary is evident on the lead single: “From Chicago to New Orleans, from the muscle to the bone/From the shotgun shack to the Superdome/There ain’t no help, the cavalry stayed home/There ain’t no one hearing the bugle blowin’,” he sings on the title track. It’s not hard to see a thematic similarity between the song and Springsteen’s work on “Someplace like America,” a recent book by Washington Post photographer Michael Williamson and writer Dale Maharidge to which Springsteen contributed a forward.

You can check out Springsteen’s reflections on “Someplace like America” here.

Springsteen’s new Wrecking Ball CD will be released on March 6. U.S. tour dates have not yet been announced, but it is reported will be a full U.S. tour with the E Street Band in 2012. Rolling Stone has more on Springsteen’s new CD here.

Wrecking Ball track list:
1. “We Take Care of Our Own”
2. “Easy Money”
3. “Shackled and Drawn”
4. “Jack of All Trades”
5. “Death to My Hometown”
6. “This Depression”
7. “Wrecking Ball”
8. “You’ve Got It”
9. “Rocky Ground”
10. “Land of Hope and Dreams”
11. “We Are Alive”

I love Seal’s version of A Change Is Gonna Come…

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Yes, it will…