{"id":32212263969,"date":"2012-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/this-time-its-for-kicks\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:08:07","slug":"this-time-its-for-kicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/this-time-its-for-kicks\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS TIME IT\u2019S FOR KICKS"},"content":{"rendered":"

As longtime locals on the \u201cReal Jersey Shore\u201d can tell you, a \u201cSouthside sighting\u201d is as sure a signifier of holiday good times as anything in the seasonal section of your neighborhood megastore.<\/p>\n

For years, this founding father of the Sound of Asbury Park has toasted the New Year and celebrated Independence Day through a series of annual high-profile concerts with the Asbury Jukes, the partystarting organization that he\u2019s fronted for some 40 years. He\u2019s even been known to take part in an all-star Christmas benefit or two, despite being playfully introduced by Bruce Springsteen as The Grinch.<\/p>\n

When Southside Johnny Lyon<\/strong><\/a> visits Monmouth University<\/strong> on February 8, 2013 \u2014 somewhere between Groundhog Day and Washington\u2019s Birthday if you\u2019re keeping score \u2014 it will mark a rare non-holiday outing for the music legend whose full-length concerts remain \u201cdrop everything\u201d destination events. To make the occasion even more momentous, this time it\u2019s a junket undertaken without the Jukes.<\/p>\n

For the 8 p.m. show at the Pollak Theatre, Lyon will be stepping out in front of The Poor Fools<\/strong>, the stripped-down, \u201cfree-wheeling bluegrass inflected folk rock experiment\u201d that made its debut at the 2012 Light of Day concert in Asbury Park. A back-roads tour of the songs, singers and regional seasonings that helped spice up the S.O.A.P. soup, the Poor Fools project presents the veteran big-band ringmaster in an intriguing \u201cno rules, no fences\u201d setting that takes in \u201ca wide range of music from Dylan, Mose Allison, Muddy Waters, NRBQ, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, The Band, George Jones and more\u201d \u2014 with excursions into Asbury Jukes territory; the classics as well as the deep-track grooves.<\/p>\n

Described by Johnny as \u201ca loose mix of songs, stories and banter between the musicians and \u2014 hopefully \u2014 the audience,\u201d the concert features Lyon in a rare public appearance as guitar player, joined by a team of multi-instrumentalists that include Juke\u2019s musicians and long time collaborators. Band members will be taking turns singing, switching off on instruments and\u00a0 trying out new material, in a format that finds Southside \u201cjust lookin’ to have a good time. It’ll be a little side trip between the usual Asbury Jukes touring and our next recording.\u201d<\/p>\n

With The Poor Fools also hard at work on their own recorded debut, it\u2019s another milestone marker for an artist who\u2019s never shied away from investigating all aspects of his signature R&B sound \u2014 witness Grapefruit Moon<\/em><\/strong>, an album of Tom Waits interpretations that he recorded with La Bamba\u2019s Big Band. The man with the famously acerbic sense of humor remains a genuine lover of music, and when Southside Johnny comes to campus this February, he\u2019ll be opening up his big heart, and giving fans reason to declare an all new hootenanny of a holiday.<\/p>\n

Tickets for this concert go on sale August 28<\/strong>. To purchase tickets please call the Monmouth University Box Office at 732-263-6889, or buy online at www.monmouth.edu\/arts<\/a>. To schedule an interview, please contact Eileen Chapman at 732-571-3512.<\/p>\n

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Media contact: Petra Ludwig at 732-263-5507<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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