Being an Italian-American who lives in New Jersey, there’s no possible way to avoid the name Bruce Springsteen. The Boss. He’s a legend, and especially popular among people my dad’s age. My dad has never missed a E Street Band tour in his entire life. He’s been a die-hard fan ever since his first album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., in 1973. One day, I couldn’t have been older than six, I crept into my dad’s office and decided to look through his books and CDs and pictures. I stumbled upon photos of my nonno and nonna when they were getting married, and a photo album from when my dad went to Disney World when he was little. But then I saw something that truly peaked my interest. Sitting on the bookshelf, with the slightest layer of dust, was a silver basket. Inside were albums upon albums, all Bruce Springsteen. I snatched the basket and ran it into my bedroom, and dumped the albums onto my comforter. It must have contained every single album. I shuffled through each one, reading the backs of them all, frantically searching for one that contained the most familiar songs. Darkness on th Edge of Town. That album stuck out to me. It wasn’t because of the familiarity of the songs, in …show more content…
There were lyrics about believing in the love given by somebody and faith that could save him. I started realizing that the love he was talking about wasn’t from a girlfriend or a friend just like in every other song that plays on the radio is, but he was talking about God. Even though I’ve went to church my entire life, it took some time before I picked up that this song altogether was not the happy-go-lucky anything-is-possible anthem that I had once thought it was, but rather a song of hardship and struggle. He was working in the fields and was trying to get away from the place he was
Joe Louis Joe Louis was a heavyweight boxer and he holds the record for most light heavyweight title defends. He defended his title 25 times. Louis then went into the military and became a Sargent in the US military. He served for four years in the army. Then he decided to make his living as a casino host in Las Vegas, Nevada.
An example of this is the song “Respect”, which was originally sung by Otis Redding and was covered by Aretha Franklin. Independent recording labels also allowed songs to be popular on different musical charts other than its own. This made a huge impact on the music industry because, for example, an R&B song could also appear on the pop charts at the same time it was on the R&B charts. Independent recording labels often played music that was popular in the area they were located in. Since Motown Records was founded in Detroit, it combined elements of blues, jazz, gospel, and bebop genres into its music. These are all the types of music that surrounded Detroit, and they gave the city a reputation of having a vibrant music scene.
I am going to list three places from the song and support them with evidence. “Men walking’ ‘long the railroad tracks, Goin’ someplace there’s no goin’ back”(Springsteen line 1-2) These two lines give the readers an understanding of the intense atmosphere in the Great Depression, and they also described the men despairly working for the government along the railroad. Even though people have the jobs provided by government, they can hardly afford their families. According to th the statistics, average wage for each weeks fall from $50 to $22 during the Great Depression.
The Beastie Boys. Need I say more? When most think of the rambunctious rap group from that came straight out of the 1980’s, they think about girls, partying, crude humor and maybe some music in between. Although The Beastie Boys as a group did a few things that had never been done before in music history. Thats pretty incredible considering nobody expected something so revolutionary to come from three middle class white jewish kids from New York.
A song that truly inspires me is one by Dierks Bentley called “Riser”. Dierks Bentley is a country music artist who was more popular in the early 2000’s, but recently has become popular again. He is one of my favorite artists. I was actually supposed to see him in concert this summer, however found out in June that I would have to have surgery two days before he was to arrive in concert in Virginia.
Neil Young is among the genuses of rock music. The minute I said rock this does not suggest just to that category, since he can be placed in the more comprehansive picture in rock, folk, blues or maybe jazz genre, he belongs to probably the most prominent musician. The Elvis got a label King, Bruce Springsteen is The Boss, there are a lot of queens of soul queens of pop, kings of pop, kings of hip hop and so forth. Yet Neil who may be also the king of everything, acquired only nickname as The Godfather of Grunge. When you read his biography, you will have to come to be concius, that what he executed music should be accomplished, just like there was no other option, he was ment to be what he end up being, one of the best artists certainly not just in music.
The father of Keith Urban was placed on hospice earlier this week. The country music singer is beside himself with the news because his father, Robert Urban has been such an important part of life. Keith Urban announced the news while at his exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame. According to a report from US Weekly, Keith Urban 's father was placed on hospice just days before the exhibit opened. It was both a happy and sad occasion for the country artist.
Elvis Aaron Presley, a Rock-N- Roll icon, was born on January 8, 1935. His parents are Vernon and Gladys Presley. Presley was born a twin, but his identical brother was stillborn. Elvis’s original middle name was Aron to resemble his stillborn twin’s middle name, but he legally changed it to Aaron as a biblical and traditional spelling. In 1953, Elvis cut his first demo at Sun Studio; he also began touring all over America.
In the beginning of the piece, Springsteen suggests that he was just wasting time, trying to obtain something that is unobtainable. He says things such as, “I’m just killing time” and “chasing some mirage”. Then he says things like, “I’m gonna take charge”, “I ain’t a boy,
John Peters Ringo aka Johnny Ringo, was part of the outlaw group of Cochise County Cowboys in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona Territory. Johnny Ringo was born on May 3, 1850. He was born in Greens Fork, Indiana, him and is family moved to Liberty, Missouri in 1856. Ringo first moved to Cochise County in 1879 with his friend Joseph Graves Olney aka Joe Hill. In December of 1879, Ringo shot an unarmed man named Louis Hancock just because he denied a free drink of whiskey and preferred beer.
The 100 million records he has sold and his 30 Top 10 hits, Academy Award for Best Song and 22 Grammy Awards attest to his talent and skills. Induction into the Songwriters and Rock and Roll halls of fame was to be expected. Rolling Stone magazine named
There are many great country stars today for example, Thomas Luther Bryan or many of you probably recognize him as Luke Bryan. Luke Bryan is an American country singer and songwriter. He began his music career in the mid 2000s. Luke Bryan was discovered when Capitol Records saw him perform at a restaurant and of course soon after signed him. Thanks to Capitol Records, Luke Bryan has sold over seven million albums, twenty seven million tracks worldwide and has twelve number one hits.
The reason I choose the song “Smile” by Kirk Franklin is because it’s an inspirational song. It’s a song that’s made to keep everyone motivated; this song is something to make people work harder or want to try harder to accomplish something. At the beginning of the song Kirk says ¨I dedicate this song to recession, depression and unemployment.” In that line he is talking to the people who are at a point in their lives when they just need a break from all of the stuff they’re going through at that time.
By doing this, Springsteen establishes credibility by making sure the listener can understand that this song is a tragedy and his life was doomed from
George won many awards, was inducted in the Hall of Fame, and kept old country alive when the “urban country” era started, making him one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Childhood Influences George Strait had many things that happened in his youth that influenced his future career. George was raised by his father on a 2,000-acre farm with his older brother Buddy.