Steven Van Zandt

Little Steven Van Zandt may be one of those rare performers whose live performances are actually better than those he produces in the studio, but either way, his music is great. 

I Am a Patriot (Live)

I Am a Patriot (Voice of America)

He has been known to say that leaving the E Street Band when he did was a mistake, but I don't think so. He was moved to actually say something important with his music and so many performers are not.  I am grateful for Van Zandt's work outside of the E Street Band. His songs were beautiful and they mean something. 

Native American

I have no doubt that there are people in South Africa who are also grateful to this day that Steven Van Zandt didn't close his heart or his music to their suffering. Thirty years down the road and this video still makes me cry. 

Sun City

You see in the 80s, we didn't understand how far down the crapper things had gone politically.  We still believed we could change the world with our actions. We were coming down off our hippy protest high as a nation, and poor fools that we were, we kept trying, but that’s what made us great as a rock and roll generation. We pointed fingers and we publicly disapproved of injustice, and we wanted it to stop and we wanted to help.  I miss that. Sure there was a bunch of crappy music too, but so much of the music that was happening was really good and Little Steven was a part of that. 

We had Live Aid and Farm Aid and Band Aid and we were not going to sit still for Apartheid. While Ronald Reagan laid wreaths on Nazi graves,  Little Steven told us about things that didn't make the five o'clock news. 

Los Desaparecidos

Bitter Fruit   (Short List, there's more, google it if you want)

Steven Van Zandt tried to simultaneously keep us informed and unite us.

Solidarity

Thank you Stevie and keep rockin' brother. We need your art now more than ever.