Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul – Summer Of Sorcery (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:56 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steven Van Zandt P&D
‘Summer Of Sorcery’, the follow up to the critically acclaimed ‘Soulfire’ is SVZ’s first album of original material in 20 years. It was written during the second half of the ‘Soulfire’ Tour and recorded at Stevie’s Renegade Studio September-November 2018. All 12 songs are original SVZ compositions, 1 recut from his Revolution Album, 1 outtake from the Lilyhammer Score, and 10 new songs. The album was recorded with the same members of The Disciples Of Soul that have been touring this past year. The album is a breakthrough artistically for Stevie in several ways, “My first five albums in the 80s were both very personal, and very political. I wanted the new material to be more fictionalized. The way records were when I grew up. Before it was an Artform. The concept (loosely) was capturing and communicating that first rush of Summer. The electricity of that feeling of unlimited possibilities. Of falling in love with the world for the first time. Obviously, there are occasional personal references, and a bit of what’s going on socially scattered throughout, but I achieved what I set out to do. I created a collection of fictional audio movie scenes that feel like Summer. I’m quite proud of it.”
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Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul – Men Without Women (Remastered Deluxe Edition) (1982/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:26:16 minutes | 1,96 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steven Van Zandt P&D
Men Without Women, credited to Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul, is the debut solo album by Steven Van Zandt, a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and a songwriter / producer with the Jersey Shore band Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. The title track was inspired by the Ernest Hemingway collection of short stories of the same name.
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Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul – Macca To Mecca! (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:57 minutes | 789 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steven Van Zandt P&D
Macca To Mecca! Begins as a 12-song tribute to The Beatles that kicks off with a performance of “I Saw Her Standing There” recorded in London with a special appearance by Paul McCartney. It is followed by an extraordinary surprise set at the Cavern Club recorded during the band’s sold out European tour. The intimate gig is filled with renditions of “Magical Mystery Tour,” “Got To Get You Into My Life,” and “All You Need Is Love,” alongside iconic songs famously performed by the nascent Fab Four.
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Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul – Soulfire Live! (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:34:58 minutes | 3,35 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steven Van Zandt P&D
If Steven Van Zandt hadn’t added anything to his discography since 1997’s Born Again Savage, he surely had good reason. The first was made clear by his role as Silvio Dante in the series The Sopranos (1999 – 2007) followed by his stint as Frank Tagliano / Giovanni “Johnny” Henriksen in Lilyhammer (2012 – 2014). The second reason was his numerous tours as part of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, for whose leader he remains a right-hand man as well as the go-to guitarist. This Soulfire, released in Spring 2017, is in fact an official album, but slightly different. The man in the head-wrap is having fun covering his own songs, some from his back catalogue, others having been recorded by various musicians. So we can find, nestling away in this cornucopia, a new version of Love On The Wrong Side Of Town that Little Steven co-wrote with the Boss for Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Soulfire takes in other songs written by the Southside Johnny guitarist, alongside covers of Etta James (The Blues Is My Business) and James Brown (Down And Out In New York City). At the outset, Little Steven offers a grand fiesta of classic rock mixed with a muscular rhythm ‘n’ blues and a resonant soul: a cocktail that would not disgrace a certain Bruce S. of New Jersey…
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