“It’s matter of finding the time,” Scialfa said with a laugh.
She joined him and the rest of the E Street Band for a pair of world tours in the last five years.įitting in her album around birthdays, and sick kids, and playing sold-out shows from Boston to Barcelona … well, it got a bit tricky. Then there’s her husband of 13 years: Yes, that would be Bruce Springsteen. 2 when “Rumble Doll” was released, and the oldest recently turned teenager. There were the three kids she was pregnant with No. Scialfa can provide a good explanation _ several, in fact _ for the delay between albums. But that’s what you do when you’re young.” “I had a very naive, romanticized vision of the city,” she recounted.
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Scialfa, now 50, had written a series of songs about her life in the neighborhood during the ’70s and ’80s. The pair were once neighbors in Manhattan’s Chelsea section, a connection that proved perfect for this project. He said, `Let me come down and help you.'” “What sparked the whole thing for me was hooking up with Steve Jordan,” Scialfa said, sitting in a Manhattan recording studio. But with Jordan’s assistance and gentle prodding, album No. Scialfa’s solo debut, “Rumble Doll,” came out in 1993.
The mornings are the nicest.”īut it wasn’t until one evening when Scialfa ran into an old friend that she was able to turn those songs into a new album, “23rd Street Lullaby.” Drummer Steve Jordan, known for his work with Keith Richards and others, met Scialfa at a recent benefit and asked when her next album was due. … So I try to do it while people are asleep. “For writing, I get up early in the morning – 5 o’clock, 4:30,” Scialfa said. Rising before the sun rose over New Jersey, sitting alone with a barely tuned guitar, Patti Scialfa conjured the songs for her second album while her husband and three kids slept.
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