“Just his voice and his drumming were so incredibly personal… It comes out of a certain place in the past, and you can’t replicate it.”
— Nevertheless, Bruce Springsteen sang The Band’s “The Weight” last night in honor of Levon Helm at the Prudential Center in Newark. [Via]
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I grew up in New Jersey. I live in New York. I write for the Awl, and also a book called Public Apology, for Grand Central Publishing.