I was a little apprehensive about hearing him solo rather than as part of the E Street band. Browne and Springsteen - both '70s rockers with a pop hit streak in the '80s - had been friends for years, and Browne in turn had found himself charmed by the graceful and gregarious sax man. Clarence Big Man Clemons is a hero in the world of rock music. It's unclear if it was intended to be a duet between Clarence and his bandleader, but ultimately Jackson Browne joined in on the track. "You're a Friend of Mine" was in fact penned by the same duo behind "Freeway": drummer/producer Narada Michael Walden and Jeffrey Cohen. Read More: June 1984: Bruce Springsteen Releases 'Born in the U.S.A.'
Clemons' wailing sax and onstage antics had been staples of Springsteen's act since the beginning, and he'd recently branched out into high-profile guest work, laying down a solo on "Freeway of Love," Aretha Franklin's first smash hit in more than a decade. While Clemons had already released one solo album for Columbia Records in 1983, sophomore release Hero was released in 1985 during the aftermath of Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A., which spun off seven Top 10 hits and established The Boss as one of the biggest rockers around. 18, 1986 with "You're a Friend of Mine," an upbeat duet with Jackson Browne that settled in at No. The larger-than-life saxophonist peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 on Jan. Its definitive sound is the culmination of a decade of work and a handful of recordings, as well as more than 1,000 performances, some to crowds of over 10,000.Just one member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band had a big chart hit on their own: the Big Man himself, Clarence Clemons. Formed in 1996, the group consists of seven members including Roy Morales (guitar), John-Michael Vasquez (saxophone), Jesse Sullivan (bass), Shawn Hunton (guitar), Sam Sullivan (trumpet), Danny Sullivan (drums), Doug Neal (percussion). From uptempo blasts of straight-forward ska to rich, brassy improvisations that hint at mariachi music to fervent tribal percussion, Liquid Cheese creates incessantly driving ska rhythms. But in that span, the group covers a great deal of ground. Could this as yet unnamed fusion of Tejano, nortei±o, ska, rock and punk be a new paradigm? Liquid Cheese's recent release, titled "Tres Equis," is a mere six songs long. At the same time, it pays homage to their roots.Įach incarnation of ska music, referred to as "waves," is characterized by a drastic change in sound, tempo or style.
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But bands like El Paso's Liquid Cheese, the members of which likely grew up surrounded by a fair amount of Spanish and Mexican music, are fusing the music born in Jamaica in the early '60s with their traditions and arriving at something that is easily danceable, full of energy and highly entertaining. In the same way that a hybrid of Spanish and English dialect has become known as "Spanglish," Southwestern bands enamored by ska music have added their homegrown flavors and spices to come up with a subgenre of ska called, well. The album spawned a top twenty hit single, the duo with Jackson Browne "You're a Friend of Mine" and actress Daryl Hannah on backing vocals. The album was recorded during a break in Springsteen's 'Born In The USA' tour and unlike 'Rescue' is very much an album of the mid 1980s with that dramatic 'wide open space' production sound, drenched in electronics. Clemons adopted the spiritual name Mokshagun (Sanskrit for Lord's All-Illuminating Liberation Fire). It was through the guru that Clemons met drummer, composer and producer Narada Michael Walden who masterminded Hero. Clemons also became enamored of the teachings Sri Chimnoy. During his time with Springsteen he formed the Red Bank Rockers, signed a record deal with Columbia and released his debut solo album Rescue, a gutsy retro-soul dance album in the Stax tradition, with added New Jersey cajones. Hero was the second of two 1980s solo albums recorded by Clarence Clemons, AKA the Big Man, the soulful, driving, tenor sax heart of the E Street Band and a perfect theatrical foil to Bruce Springsteen, The Boss.
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