Southside Johnny and Bruce Springsteen – It’s Been a Long Time, By Ron Swanson

Here is one of the best songs you’ve likely never heard, despite the fame of those involved:

I have long been a huge Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes fan and when this album came out in 1991 I thought it would finally be the vehicle to take SSJ to the top nationally, instead of just his native east coast. It would appear that this did not happen. It is possible that this is partly because neither Bruce nor Steve was on the charts at the time. It is also possible that it was because 1991 was a year of grunge (Nirvana and Pearl Jam were the #1 and 2 records of the year) and neither Bruce nor Steve was endorsing anything resembling a popluar line at that point.

Ron Swanson