I meant to post about this.
You need to know I am totally a Jersey Girl. Yes, I now live in New York. Yes, I was born in Philadelphia. Yes, I have lived in Massachusetts and California. But I am the Jersey Girl about whom Tom Waits was moved to write, and Bruce was moved to cover that song, and yes he is a God in my home state.
I was once visiting a friend in Florida, this was in the ’80s (in January of ’86 in fact, the week the Challenger crashed, but I digress) and I was listening to a rock radio station having one of those call-in votes. You know, they put up two artists as a contest, and you vote for your fave. It was Tom Petty, with Southern Accents his latest release, versus Cheap Trick, slogging their way through one of their comebacks.
So I was listening to the radio, and lo & behold, Cheap Trick won. The horror! The outrage! This was Florida fertheluvagawd. And I said to my friend that in New Jersey, Bruce would win in a head-to-head against God Himself.
And that’s as it should be.
