How 'bout a good old fashioned staightforward rock-n-roll band from New Jersey?
The answer to the hamhanded rhetorical question above is The Gaslight Anthem.
The songs today are the first two cuts from their debut album, The '59 Sound. The band's second album, American Slang, came out last summer.
The first song on the debut album is "Great Expectations":
And check out the band playing with The Boss:
The lyrics to "The '59 Sound" are after the jump.
The '59 Sound
Well, I wonder which song they're gonna play when we go.
I hope it's something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow.
When we float out into the ether, into the Everlasting Arms,
I hope don't hear Marley's chains we forged in life
'Cause the chains I've been hearing now for most of my life,
'Cause the chains I've been hearing now for most of my life.
Did you hear the '59 Sound coming through on Grandmama's radio?
Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls?
Did you hear the old gospel choir when the came to carry you over?
Did you hear your favorite song one last time? [Chorus]
And I wonder were you scared when the metal hit the glass?
See, I was playing a show down the road
When your spirit left your body.
And they told me on the front lawn.
I'm sorry I couldn't go,
But I still know the song and the word and her name and the reasons.
And I know 'cause we were kids and we used to hang.
[Chorus]
Young boys, young girls, ain't supposed to die on a Saturday night.
[Chorus]
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