Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Atlantic City
2. Old Dan Tucker
3. Eyes On The Prize
4. Jesse James
5. Further On (Up The Road)
6. O Mary Don't You Weep
7. Erie Canal
8. If I Should Fall Behind
9. My Oklahoma Home
10. Highway Patrolman
11. Mrs McGrath
12. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
13. Jacob's Ladder

Disc 2:

1. Long Time Comin'
2. Open All Night
3. Pay Me My Money Down
4. Growin' Up
5. When The Saints Go Marching In
6. This Little Light Of Mine
7. American Land
8. Blinded By The Light
9. Love Of The Common People
10. We Shall Overcome
11. We Shall Overcome

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8172 in Music
• Released on: 2007-06-04
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .17 pounds

CD Description
Live album recorded in Dublin by the legendary Bruce Springsteen. A collection of re-interpretations of classic Springsteen tracks, done in a 'folk big-band style'. Includes the tracks 'Highway Patrolman', 'Atlantic City' and 'Growin' Up'.

Customer Reviews

Magnificent... awesome
I've been a true fan of Springsteen throughout his entire career, even though what he made in the late 80's and early 90's somewhat disappointed me. Then last year, 2006, saw the release of "We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions", paying tribute to the American folk music of Pete Seeger, which brought The Boss back in the spotlights in an entirely different way. This CD, "Live In Dublin", is the logical - and sublime - successor to "We Shall Overcome". It is incredible to hear how this music matured further and enhanced in richness in just a few months of touring. While the merriment of Springsteen and his Seeger Sessions Band when performing these songs in LSO St Lukes in London in May 2006 (broadcast by the BBC) was already striking, "Live In Dublin" is a breathtaking and stomping set recorded in November 2006 with flailing fiddles, banjo, harmonica, and a stomping dixieland-like horn section that brings the house down in "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live", "Jacob's Ladder", and "Pay Me The Money Down". It is more than obvious that Springsteen's ensemble are enjoying themselves immensely. Their performance radiates sheer joy and passion throughout the concert, and they play with an extraordinary power that is both amazing and exhilarating.

The material varies wildly in origin, from the sea shanty "Pay Me My Money Down" to the Negro spiritual "O Mary Don't You Weep" and the 19th century Irish anti-war ballad "Mrs McGrath". "Erie Canal" is a rollicking tune, and "Eye On The Prize" and "Further On Up The Road" are eerie and haunting.

This album is a milestone in The Boss' career, a must have for any music fan, and the best (live) album I've heard over the last couple of years. So get it, open the bourbon, crank up the volume and enjoy.

Swing Out , Brothers and Sisters, Swing Out
"The fact is when Bruce kicked off at 20.30 pm on that Friday night in The Point Theatre he played non-stop right to the very end very few performers can sustain such intensity and carry a gig off that would be to us punters unforgettable those night were UNFORGETTABLE!!!!!!!I thought Bruce was never gonna stop and the highlight of the night Bruce lying exhausted over the top of the piano as if he had not a breath left in the world. Dublin was a case of the time the music and the performer - A MOMEMT IN TRUE HISTORY FOR DUBLIN TOWN." IrishJohnny

"Live In Dublin' was one of those one in a lifetime events that we all wish we had attended. Every review sings praise for this CD and DVD. Veteran concert goers and reviewers say this was the best concert they had ever attended. That is all well and good, but in the end Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band care about the fans. You can hear the fans singing along, especially with 'Pay Me My Money Down ' I found that I was singing along with the rest of'em.

Bruce Springsteen's manager Jon Landau said, "'Live in Dublin' charts the development of a band from an informal gathering in Bruce's living room to an onstage powerhouse. It also documents the growth in Bruce's vision of American music; it includes folk music, blues, Dixieland, country, swing, gospel, rock, down to and including his own writing. It's all performed with Bruce's classic energy and focus. I think it's some of the finest music he's ever made." The 23 songs on this CD are the best of the best. Included are many from his Seegers CD. They all belong in Springsteen's chest of dreams.

This CD and DVD are memorial for the emotions that are so evident in every song. Songs like the antiwar "Mrs. McGrath" and "O Mary Don't You Weep" benefit from these in-concert performances, "and a 17-piece band allows Springsteen to freewheel onto rootsy back roads not accessible from E Street. " said Marty Lance. "If I Should Fall Behind" becomes a lovely waltz, "Open All Night" swings like Bob Wills, and "Growin' Up" and "Blinded by the Light" are new arrangements. "The high point, however, just might be "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live," the 1929 Blind Alfred Reed song that Springsteen has retrofitted with rage and new lyrics about the government's bungling of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. Bruce's connection to folk protest deepens, in righteously swaggering preacher and congregation style, on the epochal rewrite of "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live". A Depression era classic that Springsteen found on a Ry Cooder album and then amended with his own brilliantly Bush-baiting verse is perhaps the most politically extreme and, as hammered home here, exultant performance of his career." Even more wonderful is "Eyes On The Prize", sung with Mark Anthony Thompson. "If I Should Fall Behind", a duet with Patty Sciafla,Is one of my favories, and "When The Saints Go Marching In" and "This Little Light Of Mine" rock free and easy. "In short, it's everything Springsteen's big-hearted thoughtfully impassioned take on Americana ever set out to be. Swing out sisters and brothers, swing out."
GAVIN MARTIN

Columbia Records released 'Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band Live in Dublin' a concert DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and separate two-CD set release, as well as a combination DVD/CD package. The two-CD set, DVD and Blu-ray Disc each feature 23 songs drawn from the band's performances in Dublin, Ireland at The Point on November 17, 18 and 19, 2006. The DVD can be seen on selected PBS stations and a glorious DVD it is;. PBS shouold reel in the cash after viewing this marvelous DVD.

There are not enough superlatives in my repetoire to register the delight of this CD. I have played it three times today and will soon listen again.
The New Boss Lives On.

Highly Heartily Recommended. prisrob 06-05-07

Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live In Dublin DVD

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

It just get's better and better...
I purchased this CD when it was first released a couple of weeks ago. I'm a huge fan of Springsteens classic stuff. Badlands, The River ect. I wasn't quite sure what to expect and I can honestly say, I didn't expect to listen to such a richly fun and fantastic CD.

Bruce is performing with more of a gruff voice and turns some already brilliant folk songs into complete and utter masterpieces.

With classic tracks such as Atlantic City and Should I Fall Behind jazzed up and newer stuff such as American Land and Pay Me My Money Down, the CD has a wide range of music for everybody. There's also a hauntingly creepy version of When the Saints Go Marching In.

I've been playing the CD in the car and it really loads you with a positive attitude for work, ect.