New Jersey: The Promised Land--SONG
New Jersey may have the greatest love ballad written about the state, and the woman who lives there. Tom Waits penned the classic "Jersey Girl." It's a song that sounds like the old doo-wop crossed with the sounds of the shore. It's clear that Waits was trying to bring out the feel of the Jersey Shore in the song.
And then Bruce immortalized it. If there's a song that gets Jersey, gets Jersey girls, sounds romantic, and also feels dirty...It's this.
Even Jovi took a shot.
What does Kentucky (#17) have? They have a song they all sing together at the Kentucky Derby, "My Old Kentucky Home." It pretty much sounds like a version of something John Denver wrote or even James Taylor. But it's not Kentucky like "Jersey Girl" is Jersey. It's common. It's fine. It's blah. It's a middle state. No identity.
Jersey owns the Best Song crown too!
Labels: Good Songs, Kentucky, New Jersey: The Promised Land
posted by Dave White at 7:19 PM
3 Comments:
M White says Tom Waits rules, as usual he is mistaken. Bruce has the best versionl Now we need a Jersey shore house!
Best post ever. The Bruce version always makes my eyes well up, bud.
Well done sir. New Jersey totally dominates music. MTV had their beach house on the Jersey Shore for a few years... you know, back when they actually cared about music. Did they ever have a beach house in Louisville? I think not.
OH, and dammit... is it "Louieville" or "Loo-ah-ville"? Make up your damn minds. We got Trenton. We got Hackensack. We got Newark. We know what we're pronouncing. And you know what else? If you make fun of the way we talk, we'll take one of those Louisville Sluggers and shove it where the sun don't shine!
Jaymar
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