In her 1987 autobiography, From the Heart, June Carter Cash wrote about their Asbury years: "There is no way to explain how Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash got involved in restoring Asbury Park, New Jersey. When I try to explain it, nothing makes sense. It has something to do with giving back some glory to a place that deserves it, but you really have to be there to understand."This is a community resource for and about promoting local Jersey Shore musicians, if you are an artist or in a band that plays and patronizes the Asbury Music scene, please join us to come out of the herd and be heard!
"I saw rock and roll's future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen," a critic famously wrote in 1974 after hearing a raw young rocker whose exuberant debut album, "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.", bristled with working-class poetry. "The Boss" also turned out to be a big part of Asbury Park's future. Famous in the Gilded Age for a mile-long boardwalk and broad Atlantic beaches, the faded resort town gained fresh notoriety as the place that launched a legend. The boardwalk and beaches still beckon, but today it's the town's storied rock clubs -- notably the Stone Pony, the old stomping grounds of Springsteen and pals like Steven Van Zandt, Clarence Clemons and Southside Johnny -- that draw fans worldwide.READ the USA TODAY Story..
