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Dan DeLuca’s Mix Picks: Bruce Springsteen’s Jazz Fest, Freddie Jackson love songs, and Mark Lanegan’s punk-blues

What our music critic is listening to this week.

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2018 file photo, Bruce Springsteen performs in New York. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2018 file photo, Bruce Springsteen performs in New York. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)Read moreBrad Barket / Brad Barket/Invision/AP

Bruce Springsteen & the Seeger Sessions Band at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Bruce Springsteen’s headlining performance at the first New Orleans Jazz Fest to be held after Hurricane Katrina in 2006 was an emotional moment for the city at a time when the recovery from the natural and man-made disaster that befell was still very much in doubt. Last month, Springsteen called it “one of my top five live performance experiences ever.” The whole thing can now be seen on the Boss’ YouTube channel.

Freddie Jackson. Along with the late Luther Vandross, Freddie Jackson was a dominant buttery-smooth soul hit-maker in the 1980s and early 1990s, scoring not one but 10 chart-topping baby-making hits with titles like “Rock Me Tonight (For Old Time’s Sake),” “Tasty Love,” and “Do Me Again.” He’ll be kicking it old school on Sunday at the Keswick.

Show Me the Body. The New York hardcore punk band who have absorbed hip-hop rhythms into their sound contemplate just how terrible everything is in the Big Apple — always a popular subject in Philadelphia — in their new album, Dog Whistle. With Symbiote, Junta, and Ghosh. Wednesday at Everybody Hits.

Mark Lanegan. Baby, he was born to brood. Screaming Trees frontman and sometime Queen of the Stone Age member Mark Lanegan sings the deep, dark digital blues on With Animals, his exquisitely grim 2018 collaboration with Duke Garwood. Australian goth punk-turned-country singer Simon Bonney opens. Wednesday at Underground Arts.

Carla Olson and Todd Wolfe. Olson is a Texas native and longtime player on the Los Angeles roots rock scene who fronted the 1980s band the Textones and has forged a career as an indie producer and songwriter. She’s on tour with former Sheryl Crow bandleader Todd Wolfe, whom she’s teamed up with on their new The Hidden Hills Sessions album. Thursday at the Living Room at 35 East.