Bonus #11
James Wilsey – “El Dorado”

And to celebrate crossing the 7400 mark on songs loaded on my machine, some more:

11) Where We’re Calling From, Doves
12) Rockefeller, The Clumsy Lovers
13) The One You Really Love, The Magnetic Fields

1. Old and In the Way – Angel Band
2. I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm – Billie Holiday
3. You Can’t Do That – The Beatles
4. Sugar Magnolia – The Grateful Dead
5. Wild Night – Van Morrison
6. Love Sneakin’ Up on You – Bonnie Raitt
7. Longing – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
8. Come Rain or Come Shine – Ray Charles
9. New Blue Moon – Traveling Wilburys
10. You Stand By Me – The Who

Johny & the Hurricanes – Crossfire
New Order – In a Lonely Place
Ebb Tides – Big Noise from Waimea
Shriekback – Exquisite Corpse
Fall – Victoria
Wire – On Returning
Ultravox – Quiet Men
Thin White Rope – Take It Home (live)
Wailers – Scratchin’
Dave Alvin – Sinful Daughter

Badsang – Dungen
Head Title (A.K.A Distant Lover) – Marvin Gaye
Smile At You Fleetwood Mac
Waltz Darling (Introducting Lourdes & Pretty Fatt) – Malcolm Mclaren & The Bootzilla Orchestra
People Make The World Go Round – Milt Jackson
Boss On The Boat – Tosca
Lowdown – Boz Scaggs
Wanin Moon – Nicola Conte
What’s the Hurry? – Marianne Faithfull
Sign ‘O’ The Times – Prince

The Bitch Is Back – Elton John
The Cool Shades – Scott Fraser

1) “Ecstasty” – Rusted Root
2) “Infected” – Bad Religion
3) “What’s Your Favourite Color?” – Living Color
4) “Among the Living” – Anthrax
5) “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” – The Brodingnagian Bards
6) “Le Copa De Vida (Cup of Life)” – Pure Football Anthems
7) “Bully in the Alley” – Three Pruned Men
8: “Problems” – Love Junkie
9) “Love to Love You” – The Corrs
10) The Bugaloos” – Collective Soul

That was…mixed. Onward to the X+es!

X+1) “Wildwood Flower” – 9,999 Maniacs
X+2) “Desperado” – Johnny Cash

The New Jersey musician, ‘through his playing and personality, contributed an essential element’ to the spirit of Springsteen’s band.
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
April 18, 2008
Danny Federici, one of the original members of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, died Thursday. He was 58.

The keyboardist passed away at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after battling melanoma for three years, according to a posting on brucespringsteen.net.

His organ-playing can be heard in the classic “Born to Run,” the 1975 song that launched Springsteen’s career. He also played the organ and glockenspiel in the 1984 hit “Born in the U.S.A.”

Robert Hilburn, former pop critic for the Los Angeles Times, said Federici brought a “soulful seasoning” to the band. “Sometimes it felt like the New Jersey shore, where he came from: sometimes bright, sometimes melancholy,” Hilburn said.

“Danny was a marvelous musician, but for fans . . . his importance went beyond his keyboard work,” Hilburn said. “There has long been a sense of brotherhood and community surrounding the E Street Band and Danny, through his playing and personality, contributed an essential element to that spirit.”

Hilburn said of Springsteen’s concert last week in Anaheim, “You couldn’t help but miss Danny’s presence. Without him, the band was not whole.”

Federici, who has played with Springsteen since the late 1960s, dropped out of the group’s U.S. tour in November to undergo treatment for the skin cancer. He made a special appearance in Indianapolis on March 20.

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band began last year its first full-scale U.S. and European tour in four years.

Federici was born in Flemington, N.J., a long car ride from the Jersey shore haunts where he first met kindred musical spirit Springsteen in the late 1960s. The pair often jammed at the Upstage Club in Asbury Park, N.J., a now-defunct after-hours club that hosted the best musicians in the state.

It was Federici, along with original E Street Band drummer Vini Lopez, who invited Springsteen to join their band.

Federici became a stalwart in the E Street Band as Springsteen rocketed from the boardwalk to international stardom. Springsteen split from E Street in the late ’80s, but they reunited for a hugely successful tour in 1999.

Concerts scheduled for Friday in Ft. Lauderdale and Saturday in Orlando were postponed.