In his new song, Jack Antonoff has paid tribute to Jesse Malin with Bleachers’ cover of ‘Prisoner of Paradise’. Beloved songwriter Malin suffered a stroke in 2023 and is now paralyzed from the waist down. This track is from a full-length collection titled ‘Silver Patron Saints’ that is a fundraiser for Malin’s Sweet Relief fund. Other artists that appear include Bruce Springsteen, Billie Joe Armstrong, Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello, The Hold Steady, Tommy Stinson, Alison Mosshart (with the late Wayne Kramer), Tom Morello, Counting Crows, Dinosaur Jr., The Wallflowers, Spoon, Susanna Hoffs, Frank Turner, and Rancid.
David Fricke writes in the liner notes, “Jesse Malin knows about scars, from his youth, observation and more. They all carry tales, and he’s not done telling them. ‘Silver Patron Saints’ is the gang back at the bar, coming to the stage to toast the composer and his story so far.”
Well, here's The Boss covering a Jesse Malin song - it's the latest single from 'Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin' which is out on 20th September as a 3xLP or 2xCD set on Glassnote Records. All proceeds from the album will benefit Malin’s Sweet Relief artist fund, set…
A moving statement of support for a great songwriter from his contemporaries Jesse Malin may be one of those artists that can be characterised as a songwriter’s songwriter. Certainly, the list of his collaborators and admirers is a pretty long one. Malin has been playing since the 1980s, came to…
That's it for us for another week as we head into a thankfully less anxiety-inducing weekend weather-wise than the last one. We leave you with a new track by the always good value Jesse Malin - 'Keep On Burning' is available from Bandcamp now with a terrific Ramones cover as…
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
