NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A spectacular new
live collection recorded last year in North America and Europe during the legendary rock 'n' roller's
first world tour in nearly two decades, Little Steven and the
Disciples of Soul's SOULFIRE LIVE! is available now via Little
Steven Van Zandt's Wicked Cool Records and UMe. The 3CD collection
includes 24-tracks released digitally in April alongside an
exclusive third disc highlighted by superstar guest performances
recorded throughout the trek, including Bruce Springsteen, Richie Sambora, Peter
Wolf, and Jerry Miller (of
Moby Grape). Order SOULFIRE LIVE! now:
https://UMe.lnk.to/SoulfireLive
Rolling Stone is premiering the live video of Little
Steven's performance of "Can I Get A Witness," featuring
Richie Sambora. Recorded last year
at the famed Orpheum Theatre in Los
Angeles, the video captures Little Steven and his 15-piece
band, the Disciples of Soul's, spirited and sweat-soaked shows
which will be on full display on the Blu-Ray coming later this
year.
Watch "Can I Get A Witness" Featuring Richie
Sambora:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-steven-van-zandt-richie-sambora-team-up-on-marvin-gayes-can-i-get-a-witness-713992/
Fans can now pre-order ahead of their release later this year,
SOULFIRE LIVE! as a unique 7LP vinyl box set and on Blu-Ray video
exclusively at Little Steven's just-launched new webstore. The
vinyl box set will incorporate an exclusive bonus LP capturing
Little Steven's extraordinary surprise set at Liverpool's legendary Cavern Club recorded
November 2017 during his band's sold
out European tour. The intimate lunchtime gig saw Little Steven and
the Disciples of Soul paying tribute to The Beatles with rocking
renditions of "Magical Mystery Tour," "Good Morning, Good Morning,"
"Got To Get You Into My Life," and "All You Need Is Love,"
alongside iconic songs famously performed by the nascent Fab Four,
including "Boys" (originally by The Shirelles), "Slow Down" (by
Larry Williams) and "Soldier Of
Love" (first recorded by Arthur
Alexander).
"Playing in the same venue where The Beatles started their
careers was a childhood dream of mine come true," says Little
Steven. "This was a band that set me on course for a life of music.
For my rock 'n' roll religion, The Cavern is the first sacred site.
It was an honor – no, make that an epiphany – to perform
there."
The SOULFIRE LIVE! Blu-ray video edition will include Little
Steven and the Disciples of Soul's complete Cavern Club concert
alongside video performances of each song on the 3CD/vinyl set,
exclusive interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. In addition,
the Blu-ray edition will feature a special documentary about the
Cavern Club performance that sees Little Steven honored with a
brick in the club's hallowed Wall of Fame before leading his band
through swift rehearsals of Beatles songs mere minutes ahead of
their performance. The Blu-ray and vinyl box are available to
pre-order now on Little Steven's just-launched new web store:
https://UMe.lnk.to/LittleStevenSoulFireLIVE
SOULFIRE LIVE! is an epic and electrifying journey through rock
'n' roll history led by one of its most passionate practitioners,
showcasing Stevie Van Zandt's
limitless knowledge, talent, and sheer love for the genre in all
its many shapes and guises. Among the album's many highlights are
original songs from throughout Little Steven's illustrious career –
including classics like "Standing In The Line Of Fire" and "I Don't
Want To Go Home" – alongside a number of favorite cover versions
like The Electric Flag's "Groovin' Is Easy," Etta James' "Blues Is My Business," and
James Brown's "Down And Out In New
York City," the latter two songs also featured on last year's
critically acclaimed SOULFIRE. In addition, SOULFIRE LIVE! includes
Van Zandt's inimitable
introductions, detailing each song's unique history and singular
spot in his life and illustrious career.
The exclusive SOULFIRE LIVE! third disc showcases special guest
appearances from some of Little Steven's closest friends,
collaborators, and favorite artists. Among the highlights are
versions of Moby Grape's "Can't Be So Bad" performed with the
legendary San Francisco band's
founding member, Jerry Miller; the
Motown classic, "Can I Get A Witness," performed with New Jersey's own Richie Sambora; The J. Geils Band's "Freeze Frame" with vocals from the
one and only Peter Wolf; and "Tenth
Avenue Freeze-Out" and Little Steven's own "I Don't Want To Go
Home," both joined by Bruce
Springsteen.
As if that weren't enough, Disc 3 also includes the Disciples of
Soul's electrifying takes on a number of Little Steven's all-time
favorite rock 'n' roll songs, including Tom
Petty and the Heartbreakers' "Even The Losers," AC/DC's "You
Shook Me All Night Long," John
Lennon's "Working Class Hero," The Allman Brothers Band's
"It's Not My Cross To Bear," The Animals' "We Gotta Get Out Of This
Place," and The Ramones' "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight
Tonight)."
SOULFIRE LIVE! was produced and arranged by Stevie Van Zandt; the album was mixed by Bob
Clearmountain and mastered by Bob
Ludwig.
LITTLE STEVEN AND THE DISCIPLES OF
SOUL
SOULFIRE LIVE!
TRACKLISTING
* DISC 3 AUDIO EXCLUSIVE TO 3CD AND VINYL RELEASES
DISC 1
- Mike Stoller Intro
- Soulfire
- I'm Coming Back
- Blues Is My Business Intro
- Blues Is My Business
- Love On The Wrong Side Of Town
- Until The Good Is Gone
- Angel Eyes
- Some Things Just Don't Change
- Saint Valentine's Day Intro
- Saint Valentine's Day
- Standing In The Line Of Fire Intro
- Standing In The Line Of Fire
- I Saw The Light
- Salvation
- The City Weeps Tonight Intro
- The City Weeps Tonight
DISC 2
- Down And Out In New York City
- Princess Of Little Italy Intro
- Princess Of Little Italy
- Solidarity
- Leonard Peltier
- I Am A Patriot
- Groovin' Is Easy
- Ride The Night Away Intro
- Ride The Night Away
- Bitter Fruit
- Forever
- Checkpoint Charlie Intro
- Checkpoint Charlie
- I Don't Want To Go Home
- Out Of The Darkness Intro
- Out Of The Darkness
DISC 3
- Even The Losers
- Can't Be So Bad (Feat. Jerry
Miller)
- You Shook Me All Night Long
- Working Class Hero
- We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
- Can I Get A Witness (Feat. Richie
Sambora)
- It's Not My Cross To Bear Intro
- It's Not My Cross To Bear
- Freeze Frame (Feat. Peter
Wolf)
- The Time Of Your Life
- Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (Feat. Bruce
Springsteen)
- I Don't Want To Go Home (Feat. Bruce
Springsteen)
- Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
Just back from a European tour, Little Steven and the Disciples
of Soul blew away audiences with their scorching concerts that
included headline shows and stage-stealing festival performances
across the United Kingdom,
Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, and Norway. "There are some shows that reach up to
another level altogether, and this was one of them. If you were at
this gig, and didn't come out punch-drunk with enjoyment, and your
face tired from smiling, then what the hell do you want from
life?," exclaimed Blues Enthused about one of the
much-talked about shows. "Playing a two and a half hour set of
scintillating soul classics, deep cuts from his back catalogue and
hot new songs from his most recent Soulfire album, he
supplied maximum enjoyment to his dedicated fans," raved
London's Express, adding,
"if music is where everybody can find a common ground to share and
enjoy their listening tastes, then tonight Little Steven produced a
joyous connection to humanity with his Soulfire show."
Hot Press enthused, "With a full brass section, Youngblood's
Lowell 'Banana' Levinger on keys, Andy
Burton doing his wizardly multi-instrumental thing and three
of the funkiest soul sister singers to ever step outside of
New York City, it really is a
feast for the ears," before declaring it "a shoo-in for Club Gig of
the Year."
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul will rev up again this
fall to celebrate SOULFIRE LIVE! with the final leg of their
Teacher Appreciation Tour, set to get underway this October. The
tour will once again benefit TeachRock, Van
Zandt's Rock and Roll Forever Foundation's national
initiative to bring music curriculum into middle and high schools
across the country. At each stop of the tour, teachers will get in
free to the concert and TeachRock will host workshops before the
show to educate teachers on how to implement music education into
their classrooms. For complete details and ticket
availability, please visit littlesteven.com. For more information
about TeachRock and the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation, please
visit rockandrollforever.org
LITTLE STEVEN AND THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL:
SOULFIRE TOUR 2018
OCTOBER
18 – Wilkes-Barre, PA – Kirby Center
20 – Rochester, NY – Kodak
Theater
23 – Atlantic City, NJ – Hard
Rock
24 – Munhall, PA -Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
29 – Wabash, IN – Honeywell
Center
31 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst
Theater
NOVEMBER
2 – Burnsville, MN – Ames Center
5- Chicago, IL – Copernicus
Center
7 – Tulsa, OK – Club Brady
9 – Detroit, MI @ Detroit Music
Hall
10 – Peoria, IL – Monarch
12 – Louisville, KY – Mercury
Ballroom
14 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music
Hall
16 – Cleveland, OH – Hard Rock
17 – Morgantown, WV – Metropolitan
Theatre
SOULFIRE LIVE! follows last year's acclaimed release of Little
Steven's sensational SOULFIRE, available now via Wicked Cool/Big
Machine/UMe. The album is available as CD, digital download, and
180-gram black vinyl, the latter presented as a double LP housed in
a gatefold sleeve with the music on Sides 1-3 and a unique etching
of Little Steven on Side 4.
Stevie Van Zandt's first solo
album in close to two decades, SOULFIRE is without question his
purest and most uniquely personal artistic statement thus far. The
album sees the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer revisiting songs that
span the length of his career as artist, performer, producer,
arranger, and songwriter, focusing directly on the hugely
influential "soul horns-meet-rock 'n' roll guitars" approach he
first pioneered on Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes' classic first three albums.
SOULFIRE quickly drew rapturous applause from fans and critics
alike, with Rolling Stone declaring, "Rock's ultimate
sideman reclaims the Jersey Shore
sound he helped invent." "Cynicism, irony and cultivated hip
detachment have taken their toll on rock 'n' roll," raved
USA Today. "With SOULFIRE,
Van Zandt aims to blow all that out
and lead listeners back to its more passionate essence." "It's hard
to imagine a more joyous and revelatory contemporary blue-eyed soul
recording," enthused American Songwriter. "The
appropriately titled SOULFIRE is a tough, tight and clearly
inspired project as well as a most welcome return from the musical
shadows for Steven Van Zandt."
SOULFIRE "hearkens back to Van
Zandt's classic first solo album of gritty, greasy,
horn-accented '60s-style rock and soul," noted Billboard,
while Paste proclaimed, "Rockier than Motown or the Sound of
Philadelphia, this a joyous
invitation to live and love."
SOULFIRE was arranged and produced by Van Zandt at his own Renegade Studios in
New York City, co-produced and
recorded by GRAMMY® Award-winner Geoff
Sanoff (Fountains of Wayne,
Stephen Colbert) and co-produced and
music directed by guitarist Marc
Ribler. The album was mixed and mastered by Van Zandt's career-long collaborators and
friends Bob Clearmountain (Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Who, Bryan Adams), and Bob
Ludwig (Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, The Band, Sly and the Family
Stone).
Little Steven Van Zandt is of
course known around the world for his utterly personal songwriting
and an ambitious adventurousness that has fueled much of his
creative output these past two decades. In addition to his ongoing
role as a touring and recording member of The E Street Band, he has
also expanded his artistic parameters to include landmark work as
an actor on The Sopranos and Lilyhammer as well as
host, historian, and rock 'n' roll advocate on Sirius XM's
one-and-only "Little Steven's Underground Garage" (not to mention
creator of Sirius XM's long-running "Outlaw Country" format).
Van Zandt has also expanding his
musical boundaries to include composing the score for all three
seasons of Lilyhammer and additional work as producer and
songwriter, lending his distinctive craft to records from an array
of international garage rockers.
For more, please visit:
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