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AOL Music to Offer Song from Every U.S. Concert by Bruce Springsteen with the Seeger Sessions Band.


NEW YORK -- Fans Can Watch an Exclusive Video Performance from Each Night's Show the Next Morning On-Demand at AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services.  Music

In an unprecedented move for Bruce Springsteen and AOL Music (http://www.aolmusic.com), the online music destination will offer an exclusive video performance from every single stop on Springsteen's just-launched North American tour with the Seeger Sessions Band. The morning after each concert, one hand-picked song from the show will be presented on AOL Music along with photos, set lists, recaps and more, enhanced by the "voice of the fans," Backstreets.com.

Springsteen's five-week North American tour kicked off Sunday night in Boston, and today on AOL(R) Music, fans can watch "John Henry", "Erie Canal", "O Mary Don't You Weep "Mary Don't You Weep" (alternately titled "O Mary Don't You Weep", "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn", or variations thereof) is a Negro spiritual that originates from before the American Civil War. " and "Old Dan Tucker" from shows in Boston, MA, Washington D.C., Columbus, OH and Indianapolis, IN respectively. By the morning after the tour's closing-night homecoming concert in Holmdel, NJ on June 25, some 18 different performances will be compiled and available on demand at AOL Music.

"For Springsteen fans like myself, the opportunity to watch highlights from every single show on the tour is almost too good to be true," said Erik Flannigan, VP & GM of AOL Music. "We are positively thrilled to be opening this unique window into the Seeger Sessions tour on AOL Music and to once again bring free on-demand live performances to the online audience."

Columbia Records recently released Bruce Springsteen's We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, which featured his personal interpretations of thirteen traditional songs associated with the legendary guiding light of American folk music
See also Americana or Americana music
American folk music, also known as Americana, is a broad category of music including Bluegrass, country music, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American music.
, Pete Seeger. Bruce Springsteen made his performance debut with the Seeger Sessions Band at New Orleans Jazz New Orleans Jazz can refer to:
  • Utah Jazz - a professional National Basketball Association franchise that used to exist in New Orleans as the New Orleans Jazz.
  • Dixieland - a style of jazz music.
 & Heritage Festival on April 30, eliciting rave reviews.

"Sometime, somewhere, a more dramatic and exhilarating confluence of music with moment may have existed... But in nearly 40 years of concert-going, I haven't witnessed one," the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name).
 raved about his performance at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

The tour will hit Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York Philadelphia, New York may refer to:
  • Philadelphia (town), New York, located in Jefferson County
  • Philadelphia (village), New York, located within the Town of Philadelphia
 and, of course, New Jersey, among other markets.

To find a complete list of Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band tour The Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour was a 2006 concert tour featuring Bruce Springsteen and a large group playing what was billed as "An all-new evening of gospel, folk, and blues," otherwise seen as a form of big band folk music.  dates please visit www.brucespringsteen.net or AOL Tickets (http://www.aoltickets.com).

About AOL LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
 

AOL LLC and its subsidiaries operate a leading network of Web brands and the largest Internet access subscription service in the United States. Web brands include the AOL.com(R) website, AIM(R), MapQuest(R) and Netscape(R). AOL offers a range of digital services in the areas of education, safety and security, communications and music. The company also has operations in Europe and Canada. AOL, which is based in Dulles, Virginia, is a majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc.
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