Headline : Eddie Manion’s Five-Decade Odyssey as Bruce Springsteen’s Other Sax Player

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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well-known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features saxophonist Eddie Manion.

If you say say “Bruce Springsteen‘s saxophonist” to most rock fans, their minds understandably go to Clarence Clemons or his nephew, Jake Clemons. But in the words of someone very wise, “there is another.” He started playing sax alongside a teenage Springsteen at an Asbury Park club called the Upstage in 1969, a couple years before Clarence Clemons even met Bruce. He guested at various stops on the Born To Run and Born in the USA tours, traveled all over the world with Springsteen on the Tunnel of Love tour, was a key part of the Seeger Sessions project, joined up again with the E Street Band after Clemons’ death in 2012, and plays on Wrecking Ball, High Hopes, Western Stars, and Only the Strong Survive. In fact, he’s on the road with Springsteen and the band right now.

We’re talking about Eddie “Kingfish” Manion. If you’re not familiar with his name, that’s because he’s a quiet, unassuming artist who stays out of the spotlight and lets his work speak for itself. That work also includes a long stint in Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, and work with Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, Bon Jovi, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Diana Ross, Culture Club, Robert Cray, and many other greats.

“I don’t take what I do lightly,” he tells Rolling Stone via Zoom from his hotel room in Austin, Texas, the day after the E Street Band played the Toyota Center in Houston. “I’m very happy to be doing what I’m doing. I’m proud of Bruce. I’m proud of the band. I’m proud to be from New Jersey. It’s been a good life so far.”

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