Southside Johnny - 2016-03-19 - Scranton, PA (SBD Matrix)

Southside Johnny 

& The Asbury Jukes

2016-03-19

Scranton Cultural Center

Scranton, PA

Soundboard Matrix recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Intro

02. All I Needed Was You

03. Don't Waste My Time

04. I Played the Fool

05. Love On The Wrong Side of Town

06. Harder Than It Looks

07. Walk Away Renée

08. It Ain't The Meat (It's the Motion)

09. All Night Long

10. Until The Good Is Gone

11. This Time It’s For Real

12. Cadillac Jack

13. Spinning

14. Without Love (with 3 horn solos and a flute solo!)

15. Ain't Nobody's Bizness

16. Talk To Me

17. Hearts Of Stone

18. Fly Me To The Moon

19. The Fever

20. I'm Looking For A Good Time

21. I Don’t Want To Go Home

22. Up On The Roof

23. Trapped Again

24. We're Having A Party

Southside Johnny - 2016-03-19 - Scranton, PA (SBD Matrix)

The New Jersey music scene rose to prominence in 1975 thanks to Bruce Springsteen. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes were the 2nd most famous act to emerge from that scene. Their first three albums, I Don't Want To Go Home (1976), This Time It's For Real (1977), and Hearts Of Stone (1978), were filled with Stax R&B influences. All 3 discs were produced and arranged by Steve Van Zandt, the group's co-founder, who also played guitar in Springsteen's E Street band. Van Zandt's tune, I Don't Want To Go Home, became Southside's signature song, an evocative mixture of horn-based melodic riffs and sentimental lyrics. The band's repertoire also included The Fever, Talk to Me, This Time It's For Real, Love on the Wrong Side of Town, a wonderful cover of Sam Cooke's Having A Party, and the definitive version of Springsteen's Hearts of Stone. While Southside never rose to the prominence that Springsteen achieved, the band remained a vibrant live force in the 1990s and beyond, touring almost non stop! In fact, just last month here in his home state, Southside hosted a socially distanced, drive in concert in the midst of the pandemic,  having everyone show up, and stay, in their cars, sort of like the old drive in movie. In any event, this soundboard matrix recording captures Southside and the Jukes in Scranton, on March 19, 2016, 5 years ago today.