Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Steven Van Zandt and Many More Turn Out for Jesse Malin Benefit Concerts in New York
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music If there’s a patron saint of New York City’s rock scene, it’s Jesse Malin. The frontman for the bands Heart Attack (a punk outfit he formed when he was 14) and D Generation, as well as a prolific solo artist, he’s been a vibrant presence on the city’s venues, rocker bars — some of which he’s owned — and extended social scene for nearly four decades, and seems to know everybody.
So when he suffered a rare spinal stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down last May, his friends rallied for him — with the benefit album “Silver Patron Saints.
The Songs of Jesse Malin” — featuring covers of his songs by Bruce Springsteen, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Lucinda Williams, Bleachers, Susanna Hoffs, Ian Hunter, Counting Crows and many others — and a two-night all-star concert at New York’s Beacon Theater earlier this week.
Both the triple-vinyl album, released in September on Glassnote Records, and the show will benefit Malin’s Sweet Relief artist fund.
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