ROMA 2006 – PALALOTTOMATICA, ROMA, ITALIA, 10 OCTUBRE 2006 – 3CD – OFICIAL SONIDO DEFINITIVO

PALALOTTOMATICA, ROMA, ITALIA, 10 OCTUBRE 2006.

Editado de los archivos de Bruce Springsteen.

Gira Segger Sessions – We Shall Overcome.

El sonido definitivo. 3CD oficiales.

Grabado por John Cooper. Mezclado por Jon Altschiller.

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Europa abrazó a Seeger Sessions Band, ganando no una, sino dos etapas de la gira. Roma 10/10/2006 respalda esa pasión, ya que la multitud de PalaLottomatica está con Bruce desde la primera nota de un «John Henry» hasta un conjunto de material de Seeger Sessions interpretado de manera emocionante. Springsteen agrega «Atlantic City», «All The Way Home», «The River», «Ramrod», «Growin’ Up» y «My City Of Ruins», además de una rara interpretación del clásico country «Long Black Veil» y el estreno de la gira de «All The Way Home».

Europe embraced the Seeger Sessions Band, earning not one but two tour legs. Rome 10/10/06 backs up that passion, as the PalaLottomatica crowd is with Bruce from the first note of a storming «John Henry,» to a set of thrillingly performed Seeger Sessions material. Springsteen adds «Atlantic City,» «All The Way Home,» «The River,» «Ramrod,» «Growin’ Up» and «My City Of Ruins,» plus a rare performance of country classic «Long Black Veil» and the tour premiere of «All The Way Home.»

JOHN HENRY / OLD DAN TUCKER / ATLANTIC CITY / ALL THE WAY HOME / LONG BLACK VEIL / JESSE JAMES / O MARY DON’T YOU WEEP / GROWIN’ UP / ERIE CANAL / MY OKLAHOMA HOME / THE RIVER / MRS. McGRATH / HOW CAN A POOR MAN STAND SUCH TIMES AND LIVE? / JACOB’S LADDER / LONG TIME COMIN’ / OPEN ALL NIGHT / PAY ME MY MONEY DOWN / MY CITY OF RUINS / RAMROD / WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN / THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE / AMERICAN LAND

Tour premiere of «All The Way Home». First ever Springsteen performance in Italy of «Long Black Veil». «Growin’ Up» is played by sign request. Final tour appearances for «Long Black Veil» and «Ramrod». Patti Scialfa is not present. Horn section is Baron-Manion-Ramm-Gayton.

Bruce Springsteen – Lead Vocal, Guitar, Harmonica; Sam Bardfeld – Violin; Art Baron – Tuba; Frank Bruno – Guitar, Vocals; Jeremy Chatzky – Bass; Larry Eagle – Drums; Clark Gayton – Trombone; Charles Giordano – B3 Organ, Piano, Accordion; Curtis King Jr. – Vocals; Greg Liszt – Banjo; Lisa Lowell – Vocals; Eddie Manion – Saxophone; Cindy Mizelle – Vocals; Curt Ramm – Trumpet; Marty Rifkin – Pedal Steel Guitar; Marc Anthony Thompson – Vocals; Soozie Tyrell – Violin, Vocals
Recorded by John Cooper
Mixed by Jon Altschiller; Additional engineering by Danielle Warman
Mastered by Jon Altschiller
Post Production by Brad Serling and Micah Gordon
Artwork Design by Michelle Holme
Cover photo by René van Diemen
Tour Director: George Travis
Jon Landau Management: Jon Landau, Barbara Carr, Jan Stabile and Alison Oscar
HD Files are 24 bit / 48 kHz – Audiophile DSD files are DSD64

Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band, Rome, 10/10/2006
A Fresh Map That I Made
By Erik Flannigan

There are few periods in the post-Reunion era as busy as 2005-2009, a five-year stretch that saw the release of four studio albums each with accompanying tours, surely none more fun for Bruce Springsteen himself than 2006’s sojourn in support of The Seeger Sessions.

It’s easy to think of Springsteen’s work with the Sessions Band as an isolated outlier, but listening to Rome 10/10/06, the third release from the tour in the Live Archive series, there’s a case for it as the meaningful bridge between Devils & Dust (released in 2005) and Magic (2007), as well as a precursor to the extended band line-up we saw on Wrecking Ball in 2012.

Of the Seeger Sessions Tour’s three legs, two of them were in Europe — that reflected how this rootsy style of music was embraced more wholeheartedly there than it was in the States, which seemed to respond with a collective, “If it isn’t solo and it isn’t with the E Street Band, then what is it?”

What “it” is, of course, is a survey of American roots music, centered around the folk movement with forays into blues, jazz, and country, as well as an alternate reading of some of Springsteen’s own music through that same lens.

The Rome audience could not be more welcoming to the set-opening “John Henry,” which gets the show off to a rollicking start. It’s clear the crowd is well familiar with the Seeger Sessions album and, better still, recognizes that the type of music, presented by a band of this scale, demands their participation, which only feeds Springsteen all the more. Happy fans, happy band.

Rome eats up stellar renditions of the core Seeger Sessions material, singing along in full voice to “Old Dan Tucker,” chanting their approval of the horn section, clapping in unison after “Erie Canal,” and embracing the call-and-response of “Pay Me My Money Down.” If you ever needed confirmation of the role an audience plays in the concert dynamic, Rome 10/10/06 is the proof.

The fans’ recognition of Springsteen originals is equally impressive, getting “All the Way Home” straight off the opening chords, then singing the chorus well after the band stops playing. The arrangement of “All the Way Home” is relatively faithful to the Devils & Dust studio version though enhanced by the big band, especially Marty Rifkin’s lyrical pedal-steel solo. The song was only played three times on the 2006 tour and hasn’t been played since, making it a vital inclusion here.

Elsewhere one has to marvel at the rearrangements of classic cuts of the canon. “Atlantic City” started life as a high, lonesome folk song on Nebraska, became an electrified pile-driver with the E Street Band, and transforms yet again into a widescreen murder ballad with the Sessions Band. This reading of “Atlantic City” has the fastest tempo of the three arrangements, a storming pace that belies the song’s somber subject matter, which is reflected tonally in the guitar, organ and vocal parts. The contrast is compelling.

Springsteen changes his vocal inflections and cadence in a striking interpretation of “The River,” which adopts gospel and even waltzing Tejano notes. The story remains the same, but the metaphor of the river itself gains stature and turns the song into more of a parable than ever before.

The most E Street moment of the night is “Long Time Comin’,” another D&D track that hews to the original album structure only to be supercharged by the horn section and wonderful organ work from Charlie Giordano. “Long Time Comin’” is SUCH a tremendous band song, it’s bewildering it only made four setlists with the E Street Band post-Sessions, especially gIven the horns-and-singers lineup that debuted in 2006 was essentially recreated for the Wrecking Ball tour.

The last two originals of the night show the incredible range of the 2006 band. “Open All Night” is recast as a swing-jazz jumper in the style of “Pennsylvania 6-5000.” “Ramrod,” led by Girodano’s accordion, finds these immensely talented musicians channeling Los Lobos with verdadero estilo.

To the core Seeger Sessions tracks and E Street redux, Bruce adds a few choice covers, the most notable being one of only ten performances of “Long Black Veil,” written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wikin, and covered by countless country artists including Johnny Cash.

Bruce and the band turn this stark infidelity ballad (a touchstone, lyrically, for Springsteen’s own “Nebraska”) into a sweeping epic that borrows some of its arrangement gravitas from, of all things, Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away,” a song famously covered by Springsteen and the E Street Band in 1984 with Little Steven. On this night, Marc Anthony Thompson trades verses and lines with Springsteen in a striking performance that is a welcome addition to the Live Archive catalog.

A belissimo Roma evening comes to an close with “American Land,” born of the Sessions Band and later fully embraced by the E Street Band on tours ever after. In front of what had to be among the most appreciative audiences of the entire tour, Bruce Springsteen and his Sessions Band show their virtuosity and interpretive prowess, and in the process draft a blueprint for what Springsteen would do on stage just a few years later.