{"id":33507,"date":"1988-07-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"1988-07-18T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=33507"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:09:46","slug":"matr-dion-patti-scialfa-and-bruce-springsteen-angel-in-the-alleyways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1988\/07\/18\/matr-dion-patti-scialfa-and-bruce-springsteen-angel-in-the-alleyways\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel in the Alleyways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some team-ups are too good to be one-offs.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Patti Scialfa and Bruce Springsteen lent their talents to Dion for a new arrangement of Dion&#8217;s &#8220;Hymn to Him&#8221; paean on his\u00a0<em>Blues With Friends <\/em>album, with Patti arranging and providing beautiful background vocals and Bruce contributing a guitar solo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hymn to Him&#8221; turned out so nicely that the three reunited for Dion&#8217;s follow-up album, <em>Stomping Ground,\u00a0<\/em>in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Angel in the Alleyways&#8221; is another religious-themed track, and once again Patti arranged her vocals for it. This time there&#8217;s a video for the song as well, set primarily at <span class=\"blast mmt-sentence\">the Monastery of St.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"blast mmt-sentence\">Bernard de Clairvaux in Miami but with interwoven clips of Patti and Bruce (on harmonica when he&#8217;s on screen, although he&#8217;s credited on guitar as well) in their home studio.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cUSMkdZKo6I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"blast mmt-sentence\">In the album&#8217;s liner notes, Dion wrote: \u201cI gave Patti a simple, raw demo of \u2018Angel in the Alleyways,\u2019 with just my guitar and vocal.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"blast mmt-sentence\">What you\u2019ll hear now is what Patti made of it.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"blast mmt-sentence\">There are five verses, and she treated each of them in a unique way.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"blast mmt-sentence\">This is her gift.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"blast mmt-sentence\">The lady\u2019s imagination is unlimited.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"blast mmt-sentence\">Her husband contributed the right tones on guitar and harmonica.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"blast mmt-sentence\">They are my dream team.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"blast mmt-sentence\">They truly make me feel loved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Angel in the Alleyways<br \/>\nReleased:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Stomping Ground<\/em> (2021)<br \/>\n<strong>Never performed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 April 6, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patti and Bruce reunited with Dion DiMucci last year on a second religious-themed collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3612,5],"tags":[3453,1917,1446,115],"class_list":["post-33507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","category-great","category-meeting-across-the-river","tag-angel-in-the-alleyways","tag-dion","tag-dion-dimucci","tag-patti-scialfa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dion.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-8Ir","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26872,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1988\/03\/14\/matr-dion-bruce-springsteen-and-patti-scialfa-hymn-to-him\/","url_meta":{"origin":33507,"position":0},"title":"Hymn to Him","author":"Ken","date":"March 14, 1988","format":false,"excerpt":"When Dion resurrected his 1986 Christian rock hymn, he asked Patti Scialfa to provide new backing vocals. 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