into the harbour

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Leroy Records
• ASIN: B000E5E86I
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,002 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The long awaited, highly anticipated new studio album has arrived! Full of 11 timeless soul and R&B classics, this latest self-produced Jukes CD includes songs such as classic Southside-penned "Into the Harbour" and "Dont Call Me Baby" as well as the Rolling Stones Classic " Happy".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SOUL, COGNAC AND RYTHM & BLUES, February 21, 2006

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MC.TOUFF "CYR OF BERGERAC" (33 PINEUILH, FRANCE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: into the harbour (Audio CD)

SORRY FOR MY LANGUAGE IMPERFECTIONS,I AM FRENCH.....WHO IS LIVING

IN FRANCE....THIS NEW CD WILLN'T SURPRISE THE FAN, BUT THE QUALITY IS HERE.

GOOD CHOICE OF INSPIRATION:

"HAPPY" (ROLLING STONES),"HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD" (TOM WAITS), TEX MEX AND WILLY DEVILLE INFLUENCE ON "WHEN RITA LEAVES",ETC....

GOOD PERSONAL SONGS.....WITH RYTHM AND BLUES "TEMPO" OF COURSE FOR THE ESSENTIAL.

ALWAYS GOOD VOICE IN SPITE OF THE TRANSIT OF SEVERAL GLASSES OF COGNAC AND OTHERS....AND THE ASBURY JUKES AT THE TOP.

GOOD CD " TO CONSUME WITHOUT MODERATION "

JEAN-MARIE FROM BERGERAC/FRANCE

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Southside Johnny at his soulful best, August 15, 2006

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James R. Devine (Mid-Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: into the harbour (Audio CD)

In 1975, when Bruce Springstreen created "Born to Run," he said he wanted to take the best of Bob Dylan and mix it with the Philadelphia Wall of Sound of Phil Spector. The Jersey Shore's best music has always done just that: combine good lyrics and the outstanding rock and roll of NYC with the absolute soul of Philadelphia. There is simply none better at this combination then Johnny Lyon (if you need proof, just listen to Southside's version of Bruce's "Hearts of Stone"). "Into the Harbour" is a marvelous combination of rock and roll and soul. Starting with the Mick Jagger, Keith Richards "Happy," the album moves to Waits "Hang Down Your Head." But, the best is Southside Johnnny and the Jukes at their soulful best. The 5 minute "Don't call me baby" along with the title cut may simply be the best (and most souful) vocal performances I have ever heard from John Lyon, from whatever band he has had. This album is a treat.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The reason to love music...and Southside, November 14, 2006

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Jersey Kid (Katy, Texas, America!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: into the harbour (Audio CD)

Call it arrogance or call it hubris; call it what you will. I'm going to start to proclaiming my total and utter bias for Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. I grew up in Jersey and spent the 60s in and around Asbury Park. I worked a snack stand in Convention Hall which gained me access to shows by the Stones; The Who (opening for Herman's Hermits!); the DC5; Paul Revere and the Raiders and a slew of others.

I also hung around Mrs. Jay's Beer Garden which was hard by Mrs. Jay's Resaurant; the former was as rowdy and the latter was not. But, it was at Mrs. Jay's and The Wonder Bar and The Upstairs that one got to see the local talent.

"Yeah," you say, "blah, blah, blah; you saw The Boss and Southside and all the others. BFD! What does that have to do with "Into the Harbour?"

Nothing and everything.

One of the other reviewers mentioned how Jersey was a amalgam of styles from The City (New York for the rest of you folks) and Philly. That meant a collision between hard-edged rock 'n' roll and lush soul-flavored rhythm and blues. That's why The Young Rascals had to be born in Jersey.

This synthesis had its apotheosis along the Jersey Shore, where was always a warm summer night; you were hanging out with you pals and the atmosphere was electric with sexual tension. Nothing epitomizes this more than the music of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, a band that for some thirty years has played a challenging melange of self-penned and cover-versions of paeans to love found and love lost. It was real life.

While Bruce Springsteen went on the arenas and world-wide acclaim, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes worked for a living. They were a bar band. There were numerous personnel changes. Many of the band members had other jobs. But, they entity that is Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes continued.

"Into the Harbour" is - I hope - simply the latest installment for the band and a fine installment it is. Whether covering Keith Richards and Tom Waits or singing your heart out on an original piece, this album is a must have for any afficinado of the music or the band. There is a maturity in some of the material, a reflectiveness that is touching and endearing. This is particularly the case with the title cut, a allegorical soliloquy about life and love and how over time one comes to learn what really matters. BTW - the cover shot is the bridge over the Shrewsbury River connecting Atlantic Highlands and Sea Bright. Many have come home under this bridge, back to their famillies and what keeps them striving to provide for them.

Buy it!

Enjoy it!