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6/07/2016 , , , , ,
Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - Somewhere East of Eden
Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - Somewhere East of Eden


Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - Somewhere East of Eden Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Somewhere East of Eden
Released: 2013

Somewhere East of Eden Lyrics


Somewhere East of Eden
  • The album name, along with its title song, was inspired by one of Grushecky's favorite books, John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Borrowing from the biblical tale of Adam and Eve and their two rivalrous sons Cain and Abel, the 1952 novel follows the tumultuous lives of the Trasks and the Hamiltons through generations of hardship to inevitable tragedy.
  • Grushecky was still mulling over the Steinbeck book when he was reading about soldiers return home from Iraq, one of the proposed locations of the Garden of Eden. He explained in a Songfacts interview :

    "I thought, 'These guys are returning to the United States from somewhere east of Eden.' And that phrase just struck in my head."

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    6/06/2016 , , , , ,
    Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - Homestea
    Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - Homestead


    Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - Homestead Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: American Babylon
    Released: 1995

    Homestead Lyrics


    Homestead
  • This was one of two songs (the other is "Dark and Bloody Ground") Bruce Springsteen co-wrote for the American Babylon album, which he also produced. While working on the album, The Boss encouraged Grushecky to put more effort into his songwriting. "So I went home and I was on a mission to write some good songs," he explained in our interview . "I had this lyric for something about Homestead, which is like the quintessential steel mill town here in Pittsburgh. I knew a lot of guys that worked there personally, and our families worked there. So I had to come up with a really good lyric."
  • Springsteen and Grushecky first met in 1980 through Steven Van Zandt, Springsteen's E Street Band guitarist who also produced Have a Good Time but Get out Alive! for Grushecky's Iron City Houserockers band that same year. The two have been friends ever since.

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    6/05/2016 , , , , ,
    Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - The First Day of Schoo
    Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - The First Day of School


    Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - The First Day of School Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Somewhere East of Eden
    Released: 2013

    The First Day of School Lyrics


    The First Day of School
  • This song was inspired by Joe Grushecky 's earliest memories, his first day of school, and follows all the other firsts in his life, like becoming a special education teacher. He told VVN Music: "Actually, I'm in my sixties, so that's one of the first memories I've retained, that first day of school. We started in first grade. There wasn't any kindergarten back then. My best friend and next door neighbor, Jackie, and I were these real rough coal miner kids. His mom and my mom are walking out after meeting us and Jackie had a freakin' meltdown. He started crying and that's where the song got started, with the line 'Jackie started crying, guess he misses his Mom' and I just sort of took it from there. It was always stressful, that first day of school for me. Summers over, get back to the grind."

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