"Soon I Will Be Gone" is Track 1 off Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools' Debut Album "Songs From The Barn" (Leroy Records 2013).  Available Mid-February '13.

Written & Produced By Jeff Kazee & John Lyon.

Southside Johnny Lyon: Lead Vocals
Jeff Kazee: Piano, Percussion & Vocals
Tommy Byrnes: Guitars & Vocals
Neal "The Dude" Pawley: Mandolin & Banjo
John Conte: Acoustic Upright Bass
Francis Valentino: Drums
Andy York: Dobro

Recorded by Mike Rew at Sanctuary Sound II, NJ
Mixed by Niko Bolas at Capitol Records Tower, Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by Richard Dodd in Nashville, TN

Soon I Will Be Gone

"So Good" is Track 7 off Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools' Debut Album, "Songs From The Barn" (Leroy Records© 2013).  Available Mid-February '13.

Written & Produced By Jeff Kazee & John Lyon.

Southside Johnny Lyon: Lead Vocals
Jeff Kazee: Piano, Hammond B3 Organ, Percussion & BG Vocals
Tommy Byrnes: Electric Guitar & BG Vocals
Neal "The Dude" Pawley: BG Vocals
John Conte: Four-stringed fretless Electric Bass, BG Vocals
Francis Valentino: Drums


Recorded by Mike Rew at Sanctuary Sound II, NJ
Mixed by Niko Bolas at Capitol Records Tower, Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by Richard Dodd in Nashville, TN


More Foolish Fun can be had at these fine spots:

thepoorfools.com
www.facebook.com/southsidejohnnyandthepoorfools
twitter.com/thepoorfools
thepoorfools.tumblr.com

So Good

From the Complete Beatles On Ukulele

Original Version recorded June 14, 1965
Ukulele version recorded September 2011
 
Southside Johnny:  Vocals & Harmonica
John Conte:  Bass 
Tommy Byrnes: Guitar
Jeff Kazee: Organ & Percussion
             with
Ira Siegel: Ukulele

Produced by Jeff Kazee
 
Recorded at PlasticCountyKitchen Studio, Astoria, Queens; and The Abattoir Of Good Taste
Mixed by Jeff Kazee in Room 16, The Old Bridge Hotel, Holmfirth, England
 
Written by Paul McCartney
 
Credited to Lennon/McCartney
 
ABOUT THE SONG
 
"I’m Down" was recorded at the same session as "I’ve Just Seen A Face" and "Yesterday". Three completely different genres. Three examples of the genius of Paul.
 
This was a day on which Paul’s versatility was displayed with astonishing prowess. Given that “I’m Down was the second song recorded that day, maybe I’m still amazed that, with only a 90 minute break for scrambled eggs and a cigarette, he was ready to tackle something as subtle and beautiful as Yesterday.
 
I’m Down is frantic and violent and the perfect B side to John’s Help. Unlike Help!, however, I’m Down was clearly more joking than earnest, with lines such as "Man buys ring, woman throws it away/Same old thing happens everyday", and "We’re all alone and there’s nobody else/You still moan, ‘Keep your hands to yourself!’"
 
Paul described it thus:
 
“I could do Little Richard’s voice, which is a wild, hoarse, screaming thing, it’s like an out-of-body experience. You have to leave your current sensibilities and go about a foot above your head to sing it. You have to actually go outside yourself… A lot of people were fans of Little Richard so I used to sing his stuff but there came a point when I wanted one of my own, so I wrote I’m Down.”
 
 
On the bootlegs of the entire June 14th session McCartney can be heard repeating the phrase "Plastic soul, man, plastic soul". He later revealed that the phrase, which the Beatles later adapted for the title of their album Rubber Soul, was used by black musicians to describe Mick Jagger.
 
The backing vocals sound more like the Stones (circa "Between The Buttons" or earlier) than the Beatles. Every time Paul sings the title phrase, someone (John?) doubles him on the second word in a sustained mock baritone voice, while two other singers (one of which is definitely George and the other might even be Paul overdubbed) provide a mockingbird like commentary in response ("I’m really down" / "down on the ground").
 
The brutal blues ukulele version is performed by Southside Johnny and The Poor Fools. The tempo is slowed way down. The guitar and uke sound like they are rising from some polluted Jersey swamp. But it is the voice that is coming from the deepest place of all.  He’s Down – really down, but I get the feeling he’s been there before and somewhere he knows this will pass into the night. 
 
You have to have lived several lives to get to sing like that.
 
“Rock ‘n’ roll should be made by truck drivers from Tupelo, Mississippi, not studio musicians with an album commitment to fulfill.” – Southside Johnny
 
 

 

I'm Down

"Can't Let Go" is Track 3 off Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools' Debut Album, "Songs From The Barn" (Leroy Records© 2013). Available at thepoorfools.com & iTunes.com.

Covering Randy Week's written gem, most notably recorded by Lucinda Williams off her 1998 "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road", this track features the dueting vocals of Soozie Tyrell & Neal "The Dude" Pawley.

Produced By Jeff Kazee & John Lyon.
Written by Randy Weeks.

Southside Johnny Lyon: Harmonica
Jeff Kazee: Percussion
Tommy Byrnes: Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar
Neal "The Dude" Pawley: Lead Vocals 
John Conte: Acoustic Upright Bass
Francis Valentino: Drums
Soozie Tyrell: Lead Vocals & Strumstick

Recorded by Mike Rew at Sanctuary Sound II, NJ
Mixed by Niko Bolas at Capitol Records Tower, Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by Richard Dodd in Nashville, TN

More Foolish Fun can be had at these fine spots:

thepoorfools.com
www.facebook.com/southsidejohnnyandthepoorfools
twitter.com/thepoorfools
thepoorfools.tumblr.com

thepoorfools

Popular tracks