![]() ![]() "What made Roy's music great is that it was so mainstream, but it had a very strange underbelly to it. " I thought to myself, 'How would Roy Orbison sing this song?' he told Rolling Stone. 5, 2022: Pete Seeger Bruce Springsteen Hear the Fresh Air program for September 5, 2022. Last week the San Diego School Board issued an apology to banjoist and singer Peter Seeger, 89, fresh from his performance with Bruce Springsteen at the pre-inaugural concert for President. ![]() Even on Springsteen's new album High Hopes, he's trying to emulate his hero. His voice was unearthly." He name-checked the singer on "Thunder Road" ("Roy Orbison singing for the lonely") and in the final years of his life, they played together a handful of times. His arrangements were complex and operatic, they had rhythm and movement and they addressed the underside of pop romance. Roy scrapped the idea that you needed verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus to have a hit. For nearly 70 years as a performer, Pete Seeger has embodied the ideals of folk music communication, entertainment, social comment, historical continuity, inclusiveness. "But for me, Roy's ballads were always best when you were alone and in the dark. "Some rock & roll reinforces friendship and community," Springteen said when he inducted Orbison in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Right before Bruce Springsteen recorded Born to Run, he'd lay in bed every night and listen to Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits. ![]()
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