https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=91&v=zWbAC3_k7SQ
LITTLE STEVEN and the Disciples Of Soul returns to the Classics at the Paramount Theatre, in Asbury Park on 12th Sept.2015. Check out the songs “Until the Good Is Gone” and “Love On The Wrong Side of Town” they are not great quality footage but its still has more soul and passion than most things youll see and hear this week.
The Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park billed as “A Darlene Love CD Release Event Staring Darlene Love & Steven Van Zandt,” Sept. 12th, to promote the new recording and release “Introducing Darlene Love”, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer’s upcoming album. with Van Zandt, who is a huge fan of Love’s for decades, produced the album and will release it on his Wicked Cool record label (with distribution by Columbia).
On the album, Darlene Love will sing songs written by Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Webb, Linda Perry and others.
“Darlene’s legendary status is well deserved but I felt the time was long overdue to show a younger generation Why she has earned that reputation,” Van Zandt said in a statement. “Partnering with Columbia Records is a dream come true because now I know the world will hear her.” The album is planned for a fall release, though the exact date is not known yet.
About 35 years ago, Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt were in Los Angeles when they heard Darlene Love was playing at the Roxy. Love had been one of Phil Spector‘s go-to singers in the 1960s, powering “He’s a Rebel,” “Today I Met the Boy I’m Gonna Marry” and other Wall of Sound classics. But by the early 1980s, she had been working as a maid and was attempting a comeback. Van Zandt showed up at the Roxy that night and promised to turn Love’s career around. “Steve told me that if I moved to New York, he could get me work,” Love says. “Then he said, ‘I need to record you.’ ”
Steven Van Zandt did get her regular work at the Bottom Line and the Peppermint Lounge, but his life got so hectic in the ensuing years with the E Street Band, his solo career and unlikely emergence as an actor that he kept delaying his promise to cut an album with her. “I finally realized last year there’s never going to be a right time,” he says. “I couldn’t have been busier than I was at the time, but I finally said, ‘Fuck it, I’m pushing this into my schedule.'”
For Introducing Darlene Love (due September 18th), Van Zandt reached out to many of the best songwriters in the world, including Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Jimmy Webb, and Linda Perry. “I said to them, ‘I want big,'” Van Zandt says. “I want horns and strings. Her voice wants that. And I told them we weren’t waiting, so I gave them a month or two.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJvEMxjloWY
He’s hoping the same thing happens for Darlene Love, and on September 12th, he’s going to join her when she plays the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park to celebrate the release of the album. Might a certain songwriter from the record that lives nearby make a guest appearance? “We’d never announce anything like that because that means I still need help to sell tickets,” she says. “This is my show. If anyone shows up, it’ll be a surprise.”
Paramount Theater, Asbury Park NJ, September 12, 2015
Still to Soon to Know duet Steve and Darlene, gift from Elvis Costello/
Just Another Lonely Mile, gift from Bruce Springsteen
The Fat Angel Sings 