“We're both Jersey guys who live to rock and roll,” says Adam Weiner, aka Low Cut Connie. “A lot of common ground there”
Little Steven Van Zandt took Low Cut Connie's 2023 song “Are You Gonna Run?” and gave it some E Street Band flavor in a new remix.
The song originally appeared on Low Cut Connie's 2023 LP Art dealers. “The new version has a thicker sound, an unapologetic kind of classic rock,” says Adam Weiner, aka Low Cut Connie. Rolling Stonem. “The original is really sweet but a little more mysterious. The new version is not mysterious at all. It's desperate and honest. His voice and guitar have this kind of rock that feels honest to me.”
Weiner is a lifelong fan of Van Zandt. They first met backstage at a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band show in Philadelphia, but didn't get close until Weiner interviewed him on his YouTube show. Hard cookies. “As you can see on YouTube, we really nailed it,” says Weiner. “Then he asked me to play at the book launch event [for Van Zandt’s 2021 memoir Unrequited Infatuations]. We're both Jersey guys who live to rock and roll. Lots of common ground there.”
“Will you run?” came to Weiner when he cooled off on a beach during the pandemic. “It was the last week of summer and the weather was great, but everyone was in quarantine,” he says. “A beautiful and very sad feeling came over me. Just a real sense of abandonment. I remember feeling like, 'You're not young anymore.'”
when Art dealers came out, Van Zandt told him he'd like to get his hands on the song. “He said he wanted to remix it and add his voice to it to give it that extra bit of E Street soul,” says Weiner. “I was curious to hear how he could add to the original since it was already quite dense, but once I heard his version I knew we had an absolute winner. It sounded like a song from my youth, nostalgic and fresh at the same time. I think he added a lot of emotion with his vocals.”
Low Cut Connie is tour/” target=”_blank”>playing shows up and down the East Coast the whole summer. During his downtime, Weiner hopes to get a chance to pay Van Zandt back for remixing his song. “I hope to sing or play piano on one of his songs,” she says. “That would be a treat. We're both Jersey guys — it's a heavy vibe that we both have. I think we sound really good together. “
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