The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely Hey, that's me and I want you only Don't turn me home again I just can't face myself alone again
Don't run back inside, darling You know just what I'm here for So you're scared and you're thinking That maybe we ain't that young anymore Show a little faith, there's magic in the night You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're alright Oh, and that's alright with me
You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain Waste your summer praying in vain For a savior to rise from these streets
Well now, I'm no hero, that's understood All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood With a chance to make it good somehow Hey, what else can we do now?
Except roll down the window And let the wind blow back your hair Well, the night's busting open These two lanes will take us anywhere We got one last chance to make it real To trade in these wings on some wheels Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks
Oh, come take my hand We're riding out tonight to case the promised land Oh, Thunder Road, oh, Thunder Road Oh, Thunder Road
Lying out there like a killer in the sun Hey, I know it's late, we can make it if we run Oh, Thunder Road, sit tight Take hold, Thunder Road
Well, I got this guitar and I've learned how to make it talk And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk From your front porch to my front seat The door's open but the ride ain't free And I know you're lonely for words that I ain't spoken Tonight we'll be free, all the promises will be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away They haunt this dusty beach road In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets They scream your name at night in the street Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
And in the lonely cool before dawn You hear their engines roaring on When you get to the porch they're gone on the wind So Mary, climb in It's a town full of losers I'm pulling out of here to win
Oh, come take my hand We're riding out tonight to case the promised land Oh, Thunder Road, oh, Thunder Road Oh, Thunder Road
Fourth day at home. The Grandma is still without enough force to go out. She feels tired and she prefers to stay at home listening to music.
Today, she has chosen MelissaEtheridge's songs. The Grandma likes rock, country and folk music and MelissaEtheridge is one of her favourite artists.
Melissa Etheridge was born on a day like today in 1961 and The Grandma wants to homage her talking about her career.
Melissa Lou Etheridge, born May 29, 1961, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist. Etheridge was born in Leavenworth, Kansas,
the younger of two girls of Elizabeth (Williamson), a computer
consultant, and John Etheridge, an American Constitution teacher at
Leavenworth High School.
Her self-titled debut album Melissa Etheridge was released in 1988 and became an underground success. The album peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200, and its lead single, Bring Me Some Water, garnered Etheridge her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female.
Brave and Crazy
followed the same musical formula as her eponymous debut garnering a
Grammy nomination. The album peaked at #22 on the Billboard charts,
equal to her first album.
Etheridge then went on the road, like one of her musical influences, BruceSpringsteen, and built a loyal fan base. Etheridge has covered his songs Thunder Road and Born to Run during live shows.
In 1993, Etheridge won her first Grammy award for her single Ain't It Heavy from her third album, Never Enough. Later that year, she released what would become her mainstream breakthrough album, Yes I Am.
Melissa Etheridge
Its tracks I'm the Only One and Come to My Window both reached the top 30 in the United States, and the latter earned Etheridge her second Grammy award. Yes I Am
peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard 200, and spent 138 weeks on the
chart, earning a RIAA certification of 6× Platinum, her largest to date.
In
1994, Etheridge played a cover version of BurningLove live in
Memphis, during the It's Now Or Never, The Tribute To Elvis. Also
in 1994, she was honored by VH-1 for her work with the AIDS
organization L.A. Shanti. During the televised occasion, she highlighted
the appearance with a performance of I'm the OnlyOne and a duet with
Sammy Hagar covering The Rolling Stones' song, HonkyTonk Woman.
The
album's fifth single, If I Wanted To, debuted in February 1995 on the
Billboard Hot 100 at No. 25, the highest debut for a single in 1995.
Etheridge
returned to the music charts with the release of Breakdown in October
1999. Breakdown peaked at #12 on the Billboard charts and spent 18 weeks
in the charts. Despite this, Breakdown was the only album of
Etheridge's career to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock
Album.
Later that year, Etheridge released her first compilation album, Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled. The album was a success, peaking at No. 14 on the Billboard 200, and going Gold almost immediately. Her latest studio album is The Medicine Show.
Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals. She has also been a gay and lesbian activist since her public coming out in January 1993. She has received fifteen Grammy Award nominations throughout her career, winning two, in 1993 and 1995.
In 2002, Etheridge released an autobiography entitled The Truth Is: My Life in Love and Music.
Melissa Etheridge
In October 2004, Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer, and underwent surgery and
chemotherapy. At the 2005 Grammy Awards, she made a return to the stage
and, although bald from chemotherapy, performed a tribute to Janis
Joplin with the song Piece of My Heart. Etheridge's performance was widely lauded.
Etheridge
wrote I Need to Wake Up for the film documentary An Inconvenient
Truth, which won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2006. The song was
released only on the enhanced version of her greatest hits album, The
Road Less Traveled.
In 2007, she won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for I Need to Wake Up from the film An Inconvenient Truth. In September 2011, Etheridge received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Etheridge was featured in UniGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docudrama titled 1 a Minute released in 2010. The documentary is being made by actress Namrata Singh Gujral and will also feature breast cancer survivors Olivia Newton-John, Diahann Carroll, Namrata Singh Gujral, Mumtaz and Jaclyn Smith as well as William Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin and Priya Dutt. The feature is narrated by Kelly McGillis. The film will also star Bárbara Mori, Lisa Ray, Deepak Chopra and Morgan Brittany.
On June 9, 2015 she released a live album titled: A Little Bit of Me: Live in L.A.. It was recorded at the closing show of the U.S. leg of her This Is M.E. Tour on December 12, 2014 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
February 14, 2019 it would be announced on Etheridge's social media pages that her upcoming 14th studio album would be entitled The Medicine Show and promoted by the Medicine Show tour.
After visiting Atlantic City, The Beans were invited by Bruce Springsteen to have dinner. The Boss surprised them with an unplugged and private concert where he played lots of fantastic songs.
Bruce Springsteen is one of the most important singers and composers of the history. He and his incredible band have created the soundtrack of millions of people around the world. Springsteen's music has a personal style and his lyrics are full of social critic and hope. He's like Charles Dickens nowadays offering hope for the no-hoppers. It's very difficult to choose only one song of all his compositions but if The Grandma has to choose, she decides Thunder Road, a song that talks about not surrender, not give up and continue in the search of our dreams and happiness.
The Beans have continued their travel to Washington, DC but they have decided to stop in Philadelphia.
The Grandma wants to talk to Lili Rush and Scotty Valens two detectives of the Philadelphia PD division who are specialized in investigating cold cases. The Grandma has contracted their services in a private way to try to discover what happened with Corto, her lover, who disappeared some decades ago without a trace.
While the Grandma was talking with Rush and Valens, the rest of the family visited this beautiful city, witness of the most important events during the Revolutionary War and nowadays, symbol of tolerance, freedom and open mind thinking.
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 1,567,872.
Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valley, located along the lower Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, within both the Mid-Atlantic region and the Northeast megalopolis. The Delaware Valley's population of 7.2 million ranks it as the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.
Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape (Delaware) Indians in the village of Shackamaxon. The Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians, and their historical territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, exacerbated by losses from intertribal conflicts. Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans.
The American Revolutionary War and United States' independence pushed them further west. In the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma and surrounding territory) under the Indian removal policy.
In the 21st century, most Lenape reside in Oklahoma, with some communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario (Canada) and their traditional homelands.
William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city in 1682 to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia played an instrumental role in the American Revolution as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States, who signed the Declaration of Independencein 1776 at the Second Continental Congress, and the Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787.
Several other key events occurred in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War including the First Continental Congress, the preservation of the Liberty Bell, the Battle of Germantown, and the Siege of Fort Mifflin.
Philadelphia was one of the nation's capitals during the revolution, and served as temporary U.S. capital while Washington, D.C., was under construction. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became a major industrial center and a railroad hub.
The city grew from an influx of European immigrants, most of whom came from Ireland, Italy and Germany, the three largest reported ancestry groups in the city as of 2015.
In the early 20th century, Philadelphia became a prime destination for African Americans during the Great Migration after the Civil War, as well as Puerto Ricans. The city's population doubled from one million to two million people between 1890 and 1950.
Finally, The Beans have decided to buy a little reproduction of Liberty Bell and travel around the world with her as a symbol of freedom, tolerance and respect.
We’re here
together again. It has been a long time since you arrived here in 1982 and I
saw you by first time. These memories in an old indoor stadium next to the
magic mountain which would be Olympic years later are unforgettable. You’ve been
always with me. You’ve been my best partner when I was alone in a road, in a
new city, in a new adventure. You can’t imagine how I have changed listening to
you.
People say
that music is universal and I agree but, in your case, you’ve joined the best
sound of an incredible band with the most beautiful and strong lyrics. I can’t
pay attention to a song if I don’t understand its lyrics and I don’t love a
song if these lyrics don’t say anything to me that make me think.
You’re my
conscious even in the best moments. You’re this voice that keeps me alive, with
my feet on the ground looking around and pressing my teeth strongly when the
world becomes more and more difficult to understand it and when staying in it
is a question of surviving and fighting every day.
I would like
that, tonight; you dedicate some songs to my families. They’re good people who
are trying to improve their English knowledge and although you’re not the best
for listening (dear, you close your mouth too much when you sing), you’re the
best poet and the best ambassador of dignity and hope.
Today, I’ve
spent some hours with The Holmes. They had an important appointment and they’ve
done a great job, because the most difficult is having courage enough to do
things, even when you know that you’re against the wind. It has been an enormous
pleasure staying with them again. How many memories!When I was with them, I remembered The
Collins and The Addams two incredible families who shared the same experience.
Nowadays, I
continue my travel with The Poppins. They’re another good and hard-worker family
with a great sense of humour and they’re incredible artists. Tonight, they’re
in Stockholm. They’re going to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. Theyhave
more possibilities but, like with the other families, they must believe in
them. They must be strong and persistent and they must trust on their future.
We can’t know what is going to happen tomorrow but we can fight the future. We
must do it.
Well, in a
few hours we’re standing together again. Only one more petition: please, play Bobby Jeanand Thunder Road for my families and me.
