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Bruce Springsteen with the Seeger Sessions Band 17 May 06

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Categories: Concert

Beautiful concert, every song was good. The band was a powerful acoustic wave, a cavalcade, of string, brass and percussion. Political and passionate and rawly harmonic. Springsteen talked about the state of New Orleans, about its importance as the mother of the very music he was playing and the Bush administration’s "gutting" of laws that might have helped the people there.

Nice gesture at the end when Springsteen brought Wolfgang Niedecken on stage to join him in Buffalo Gals (Niedecken is both a painter and the lead singer of the German band BAP, see link below).

Hurricane Katrina

It is possible that Katrina was the largest hurricane of its strength to approach the United States in recorded history; its sheer size caused devastation over 100 miles from the center. The storm surge caused major or catastrophic damage along the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, including the cities of Mobile, Alabama, Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi, and Slidell, Louisiana. Levees separating Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, Louisiana were breached by the surge, ultimately flooding roughly 80% of the city and many areas of neighboring parishes. Severe wind damage was reported well inland, and hurricane force wind gusts were reported from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Dothan, Alabama. Katrina is estimated to be responsible for over $115 billion (2005 US dollars) in damages, making it the costliest disaster in U.S. history. The storm has killed at least 1,604 people, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina →

Video on Iraq, New Orleans

Katrina Plus Seven Months A Film by Chris Hume →

The latest video in the Hurricane Katrina series by Chris Hume. It has been seven months since New Orleans was nearly wiped out by the storm, and Chris Hume is revisiting some of the people he met the first time, when the city was still flooded and under martial law. Also, a coalition of Iraq war veterans and Katrina survivors march to New Orleans from Mobile, Alabama, to speak out against the occupation of Iraq and to help rebuild the Gulf Coast. (Dispatch from New Orleans)

Links on Springsteen, Seeger, Niedecken

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen →

brucespringsteen.net →

Pete Seeger Is 86 by Studs Terkel in The Nation →

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger →

www.bap.de → (on Wolfgang Niedecken, in German)

  • Title: Bruce Springsteen with the Seeger Sessions Band
  • Band: Springsteen on Vocals, Guitar and Harmonica, "the European tour dates for the Seeger Sessions Band will comprise the following lineup" (source: brucespringsteen.net): Sam Bardfeld (Violin), Art Baron (Tuba), Frank Bruno (Guitar), Jeremy Chatzky (Upright Bass), Larry Eagle (Drums), Clark Gayton (Trombone), Charles Giordano (Accordion, Keyboards), Curtis King (Vocals), Greg Liszt (Banjo), Lisa Lowell (Vocals), Eddie Manion (Sax), Cindy Mizell (Vocals), Curt Ramm (Trumpet), Marty Rifkin (Pedal Steel Guitar), Patti Scialfa (Vocals)(Not present in Frankfurt), Mark Thompson (Vocals) and Soozie Tyrell (Violin)
  • Venue: Festhalle, Frankfurt Germany
  • Title: Bruce Springsteen with the Seeger Sessions Band