More than one hundred musicians can claim to have been members of the Asbury Jukes, including Jon Bon Jovi who toured with the band as a special guest during 1990.

Southside Johnny and Steven Van Zandt, the two prime movers behind the formation of the Jukes, began playing together in various bands during the early 1970s.

Van Zandt was also a member of Steel Mill at the time, and Southside had just left one of his formative bands, Maelstrom.

Following this, Steve Van Zandt & Friends was formed in January 1971, including Springsteen, Tallent, Williams, and Danny Federici.

In April 1971, Van Zandt and Southside also began co-leading The Sundance Blues Band, a group whose line-up would also feature Springsteen, Lopez, Tallent, and Sancious.

Southside Johnny was playing harmonica with the Bank Street Blues Band but had few opportunities to sing lead.

The original Jukes line-up was then completed with the addition of Mexican American Carlo Novi (tenor sax) and Billy Rush (guitar)[8][13][14][15] In July 1975, Steven Van Zandt joined Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and subsequently accompanied him on the Born to Run tour.

", which featured guest vocals from Lee Dorsey and the title track, which effectively became the band's signature tune.

Clarence Clemons provided bass vocal on the former but is credited under the pseudonym Selmon T. Sachs while the latter was performed as a duet by Southside Johnny and Ronnie Spector.

This Time It's For Real, released in 1977, saw Van Zandt write eight of the album's ten songs, including three co-written by Springsteen.

[15][19] The band was also featured in the 1977 film Between the Lines which starred then unknown actors Jeff Goldblum, John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jill Eikenberry, and Stephen Collins.

Their first three studio albums had only been moderate commercial successes, Lyon was injured and could not tour to support Hearts of Stone, and they were subsequently dropped by Epic Records.

His commitments to Bruce Springsteen occurred as Steven Van Zandt ended his affiliation with the Jukes, leading Billy Rush to take over as the band's co-leader and principal songwriter.

On the live album, Stephan Galfas helped out with engineering and production and also featured a trio of backing singers, Patti Scialfa, Soozie Kirschner, and Lisa Lowell.

In 1991 they released Better Days which yielded minor hits with "It's Been a Long Time" and "I've Been Workin' Too Hard" and included vocal contributions from Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi.

Composed of musicians Jeff Kazee, John Conte, Tommy Brynes, and Soozie Tyrell, the ensemble plays largely an acoustic range of music from Bob Dylan, Mose Allison, Muddy Waters, NRBQ, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, The Band, George Jones, and others, including some Asbury Jukes material in a stripped down format.

[27] On February 16 and 17, 2024, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes played two sold out shows at The Stone Pony to celebrate the venue's 50th anniversary.

He then stumbled backwards, knocked over the mic stand and sat briefly on a bench on stage before being taken away for medical attention.