Patti Scialfa's the Boss

Patti Scialfa has always been a mystery. As a member of the E Street Band alongside Rosetta Stone Outlet husband Bruce Springsteen, shes a familiar but enigmatic presence, and her one solo album, 1993s Rumble Doll, yielded few biographical clues. "When youre married to someone famous," she says, "people know you, but theyre not really seeing you."With her deeply personal new album, 23rd Street Lullaby, Scialfa has decided its high time she opened up. She is sitting in a New York recording studio, where shes tweaking songs for a pay-per-view special. The epitome of a sexy rock chick, Scialfa is long and lean in her stovepipe jeans, and she kicks off her high Rosetta Stone V3 heels to lounge barefoot, her red hair spilling down her back as she leans over the board. She is a down-to-earth Jersey girl, funny and likable. ("Im fifty," she says at one point, moving her face under a light. "This is what fifty looks like.")On 23rd Street Lullaby, Scialfa delves into her starving-artist years in Seventies and Eighties New York, a richly creative time both for the city and herself. Scialfa is a born storyteller, and her evocative rock songs perfectly conjure the wild hopefulness of youth, when you knew everything and stayed up all night talking, talking, talking about life and philosophy and music.Scialfa is backed by a solid band of old friends, including E Streeter Nils Lofgren and drummer Steve Jordan, who co-produced the album with her. "Ive always loved the way Patti sings," Jordan says. "She has a little Ronnie Rosetta Stone Korean Spector in her voice, but she can remind you of Emmylou Harris." He pauses. "You know, the person shes married to casts an extremely long shadow, so theres a tendency to get lost in the sauce. But if youre making good, timeless music without the pyrotechnics and helicopters and the bombs going off, it doesnt matter when you do it."Springsteen, her husband of thirteen years, agrees. "Patti has only been able to use a small portion of her talent onstage with the E Street Band," he says. "Shes always been a beautiful songwriter, and on this record people will get the chance to hear what she can really do."Scialfas life is, essentially, a love story - not just between her and Springsteen, although there is that, too (they grew up ten miles from each other). Its really the story of a girl and her music. She was raised in the Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 Jersey Shore town of Deal, the daughter of a successful entrepreneur.

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