Ride Like the Wind

Interesting article HERE on how Jimmy Fallon is changing the late-night music game.

Take Bruce Springsteen, a dream guest of Fallon’s. \When they finally found an opening, around the rerelease of Darkness on the Edge of Town, Cohen and his team showed a willingness to break from late-night conventions: Instead of having just one song at the end, they dedicated the whole show to Springsteen, who in turn gave a two-part interview, did a cover of a pop song by Willow Smith, and dropped his usual E Street Band to do two vintage tracks with the Roots. It was the most exciting evening of music on late night in recent memory.

Besides of course the classic Bruce appearances, Fallon had the the idea to bring Christopher Cross and Michael Mcdonald together, a fantasy league pick for someone my age when it comes to "soft rock of the early 1980's." When they talk about careers that were wiped out by the arrival of MTV, Cross' name is the first name on the list and it' easy to see why, so it's good to see he's still...rocking. Sorta.

Good for Fallon, who seems to have the enviable job of filling his music booker's ear with whatever dream guests he can come up with.

DISCLOSURE; No, this performance in no way comes close to being as awesome as a certain someone's take on the song, but hey, good on the guys for trying, right?

SECOND DISCLOSURE: Originally, I embedded the Cross/Mcdonald video in this post, but it turns out every time you visit Xmastime it starts playing whether you want it to or not, which is annoying as fuck. So I'm switching things out by linking to the video HERE and pleasing you by embedding a certain someone's take on the song below. You're welcome, Earth.