Tuesday Tunes: Spotlight on The Gaslight Anthem
When The Gaslight Anthem started to make some public noise a few years ago with “The ’59 Sound,” it was tought not to take notice. Yes, there was something familiar in singer Brian Fallon’s plain-spoken observations about death (“Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over? Did you hear your favorite song one last time?”) and his poetic musings set against a driving guitar and thunder road drumming (“Young boys . . . young girls…ain’t supposed to die on a Saturday night”). That the band is from New Jersey brings the obvious comparisons to Bruce Springsteen… >>
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