Brian Fallon will perform in Asbury Park, June 14.
Brian Fallon has released two new songs, “Not Bad for New Jersey” and “Better Before,” and has scheduled a brief Not Bad for New Jersey Tour that will come to The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, June 14, as part of the North to Shore Festival.
Fallon will perform with his band The Painkillers, and Emily Wolfe will open. Tickets will go on sale May 15 at 10 a.m., with pre-sales starting May 14 at 10 a.m.; visit ticketmaster.com.
Both songs have been released on Fallon’s own Lesser Known Records label. They can be seen below, in videos featuring photos of Fallon in Asbury Park.
Fallon sings in “Not Bad for New Jersey,” “I can’t say I had a good time/But after all this crazy, I think we did alright … On the shoreline, in the springtime/I come back to life/By the seaside, the little-dream-of-me side/Where we never say die/I think we did alright/Not bad, not bad for Jersey.”
Fallon said in a press release that the song “is my way of celebrating what I do and where I’m from. I wrote that song looking back on my life the way you do after almost ending up in a crash – like, ‘How did I make it through that?’ I really could’ve busted myself open somewhere along the way, but somehow I’m still here, and I’m still in one piece.”
In addition to the four shows of the Not Bad for New Jersey Tour, Fallon has been added to the lineup of the June 4 “Music America: The Songs That Shaped Us – Celebrating 250 Years of American Music” concert at The OceanFirst Bank Center at Monmouth University in West Long Branch. The show, as well as a second concert on June 5 at the same venue, will celebrate the June 13 opening of the new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University.
For more about Fallon, visit brianfallon.net.
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