Ahh yes could you imagine that boombox belting out the screams of Bert McCracken , take my hand take my life take take take it away , what girl could say no to that?
Spin an album by a band or artist that takes a stylistic or genre-bending turn. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Bruce obviously did not come up the the 60s Greenwich Village folk movement. He was too busy rocking out New Jersey clubs to give much thought to a scene that was pretty much gone by the time his star was rising in the early 70s. It wasn’t until a bit later in his life that he began to explore the works of Pete Seeger through playing Seeger’s tunes for his then 10 year-old daughter. Turns out, he grew so fond of the style he decided to record an Album of traditional folk songs associated with Pete Seeger. Made up of musicians from the local New York/New Jersey folk scene and the horn section from The Max Weinberg Seven (Conan O’Brian’s Late Night backing band); this is the only album in his catalog that contains no Springsteen written material. This LP is a delight all the way through, Bruce’s gruff voice fits these songs perfectly, many are so well known you can’t help but sing along upon your first listen.
Less a genre change than a radical stylistic sense of anything-can-happen. I considered about a dozen other albums for this day, but when I considered the time and the context of where and when this album appeared in his discography, none of the other options felt as brave and brazen as this.
