I don’t know how, but somehow I have completely missed out on this young lady. Ended up having to go to work today, but the office is empty so I turn on the office system and flip over to channel 103 (Freeview) on DirectTV. There is Patti Scialf playing a live show and I’m immediately blown away. I’ve never even heard of her before, but there is some serious raw talent here IMO. Of course having Steve Jordan on drums, Nils Lofgren and Bruce Springsteen on guitars backing you up on stage doesn’t hurt. Sounds to be primarily roots rock with a lot of guts. I gotta order her latest, 23rd Street Lullaby, ASAP.
” New Jersey singer-songwriter Patti Scialfa was best known as a backing vocalist for the her husband Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, until she started releasing her own albums. Scialfa began her musical career after she graduated from NYU. She took to basking in Sheridan Square in the center of Greenwich Village. She began playing on the Big Apple's club scene in the early 1980s and to sing back up for rock acts on tour and in the studio including David Johansen, the Rolling Stones and Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Before joining the E-Street Band for 1984's Born In the USA tour, she signed a recording contract with Columbia Records as a solo artist based on the strength of her demos. However, because of a tumultuous touring schedule based on the runaway success of Born In The USA, her marriage to Springsteen in 1988, and the family they began immediately after, her debut album Rumbledoll, did not appear until 1993. Domestic life, songwriting, and the 1999 reunion of the E-Street Band all conspired to delay her solo career. 23rd Street Lullaby her excellent sophomore effort, was issued in June of 2004.”
-Dave
” New Jersey singer-songwriter Patti Scialfa was best known as a backing vocalist for the her husband Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, until she started releasing her own albums. Scialfa began her musical career after she graduated from NYU. She took to basking in Sheridan Square in the center of Greenwich Village. She began playing on the Big Apple's club scene in the early 1980s and to sing back up for rock acts on tour and in the studio including David Johansen, the Rolling Stones and Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Before joining the E-Street Band for 1984's Born In the USA tour, she signed a recording contract with Columbia Records as a solo artist based on the strength of her demos. However, because of a tumultuous touring schedule based on the runaway success of Born In The USA, her marriage to Springsteen in 1988, and the family they began immediately after, her debut album Rumbledoll, did not appear until 1993. Domestic life, songwriting, and the 1999 reunion of the E-Street Band all conspired to delay her solo career. 23rd Street Lullaby her excellent sophomore effort, was issued in June of 2004.”
-Dave
