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Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Steven Van Zandt and Many More Turn Out for Jesse Malin Benefit Concerts in New York
When veteran NYC rocker Jesse Malin suffered a stroke last year, Elvis Costello, Steven Van Zandt and more rallied for a benefit album and concerts.
The frontman for the bands Heart Attack (a punk outfit he formed when he was 14) and D Generation, as well as a prolific solo artist, he’s been a vibrant presence on the city’s venues, rocker bars — some of which he’s owned — and extended social scene for nearly four decades, and seems to know everybody. Guests at the concerts included Lucinda Williams duetting with Elvis Costello on the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses,” Rickie Lee Jones, Steven Van Zandt, Dinosaur Jr.’s J. Mascis, Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz, Alejandro Escovedo, Jakob Dylan, Butch Walker and many others, with spoken introductions from Mary Louise Parker, Matt Dillon, Fred Armisen and even a second castmember from “The Sopranos,” Michael Imperioli. Instead, the event focused on Malin the singer-songwriter — with songs spanning his solo albums “Glitter in the Gutter,” “Before the War,” “Sunset Kids” and “Sad and Beautiful World — and lots of covers, usually with twists, like a version of the Stones’ “Sway” that started off sounding more like Public Image, and the Ramones’ “Rock and Roll Radio” with a melody more like the Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley.
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