Bruce Springsteen 'Cadillac Ranch': Well, there she sits buddy justa gleaming in the sun There to greet a working man when his day is d.
One of Springsteen's finest-ever B-sides and one of his great songs about one of his very favorite subjects, 'Pink Cadillac' is a mid-tempo 12-bar blues. Its melody is simple and unimaginative, and there is minimal musical backing (just bass and drums accompany the artist himself). The song works purely because Springsteen allows himself to abandon pretension and to have a little fun with the lyrics. Lines such as 'Now honey, it ain't your money/'Cause, baby, I got plenty of that/I love you for your pink Cadillac' are both hilarious and totally enthralling. Of course it's tongue-in-cheek, but it works wonderfully well as one of Springsteen's many odes to his cars and as a great singalong tune which has been popular with his fans since its release. There have been many cover versions, with Carl Perkins perhaps recording the finest, treating the song as if it was written especially for him.
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is both a solo artist and the leader of the E Street Band. He received critical acclaim for his early 1970s albums and attained worldwide fame upon the release of Born to Run in 1975. Bruce Springsteen Pink Cadillac lyrics & video: You may think I'm foolish For the foolish things I do You may wonder how come I love you When you get on my nerves like you do.
'Johnny 99' is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska.
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In 'Johnny 99' Springsteen sings about an auto worker who gets laid off in Mahwah, New Jersey and shoots and kills a night clerk while drunk and distraught.[1] As a result, he is apprehended and is sentenced to 99 years in prison, but requests to be executed instead.[1] On the song, Springsteen is accompanied only by his acoustic guitar,[1] although he doubles on harmonica as well. Despite the bleakness of the song's themes - including unemployment, poverty, robbery, murder and possibly execution - the tune is ironically jaunty,[2] with a shuffling rockabilly beat.[3]
Like several other songs on the Nebraska album, 'Johnny 99' is a song about complete despair.[4] It has direct links with certain songs on Nebraska: the protagonist in 'Johnny 99' notes that he has 'debts no honest man could pay,' repeating a line used by the protagonist in 'Atlantic City',[1][5] and, like the title song, 'Johnny 99' is about a murderer[1] â though rather than being a psychopath like the protagonist in the title song, 'Johnny 99' is motivated by his economic circumstances.[2]
History[edit]
Like the rest of the Nebraska album, 'Johnny 99' was recorded in January 1982 in a no-frills studio set up in Springsteen's home in Colts Neck, New Jersey.[6] Most likely it was recorded on January 3, 1982, when most of the album tracks were recorded.[6]
The background of the song is based on a real-life incident, the closing in 1980 of a Ford Motor Company plant in Mahwah, which had been open since 1955.[3] The song also has antecedents in two folk songs that appeared on the box set Anthology of American Folk Music: Julius Daniels' '99-Year Blues' and Carter Family's 'John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man.'[3]
Despite its bleak themes, it has been a reasonably popular song in concert, with 379 live performances through May 2014.[7] A live version was released on the album Live/1975â85.[1][8] During a September 22, 1984 Born in the U.S.A. Tour concert in Pittsburgh, Springsteen used the introduction to 'Johnny 99' to respond to President Reagan referencing the message of hope in Bruce Springsteen's songs, stating 'The president was mentioning my name the other day, and I kinda got to wondering what his favorite album musta been. I don't think it was the Nebraska album. I don't think he's been listening to this one.'[9]
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Other artists have recorded 'Johnny 99.' Most famously, Johnny Cash recorded it along with another Nebraska song, 'Highway Patrolman' for an album Cash entitled Johnny 99.[1][2] The song has also been recorded for Bruce Springsteen covers albums by John Hiatt and Los Lobos.[1]Punk rock band The Loved Ones covered the song on their EP, Distractions. Mark Erelli and Jeffrey Foucault also covered the song for Seven Curses, an album of murder ballads. The band Shovels & Rope covered the song as well and perform it occasionally live. It was also released as B-side of a 2006 single by UK rock band Mystic Knights of The Sea. The A-side of this single was an earlier Springsteen tune, 'Cadillac Ranch.'
Critical reception[edit]
In praising the album Nebraska, 'Johnny 99' is one of the songs that was singled out by Mikal Gilmore of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.[10] In discussing Springsteen's growth as a writer, he stated that 'When Springsteen tells Charlie Starkweather and Johnny 99's tales, he neither seeks their redemption nor asks for our judgment. He tells the stories about as simply and as well as they deserve to be told - or about as unsparingly as we deserve to hear them - and he lets us feel for them what we can, or find in them what we can of ourselves.'[10]
Though never released as a single anywhere, 'Johnny 99' garnered enough album oriented rock airplay to reach #50 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[11]
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