“I’ve stood around carnivals at nights when they’re clearing up and I was scared.” – Bruce Springsteen in a 1974 ZigZag interview. The stories from Bruce’s second album The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle engrossed me as a youngster,…
“I’ve stood around carnivals at nights when they’re clearing up and I was scared.” – Bruce Springsteen in a 1974 ZigZag interview. The stories from Bruce’s second album The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle engrossed me as a youngster,…
Springsteen and the E Street Band are putting the pedal to the metal in this no-nonsense rocker, with him and his buddy Wayne racing down the highway. It’s one of his purest escapist songs, and you can’t help but be…
Walk Like a Man is yet another Springsteen track I’ve added retrospectively after it somehow slipped through the cracks all these years. So I’m trying to make amends now, and I hope I do it some justice. I was so…
Western Stars is late, late Bruce, and it’s as steeped in country as I’ve ever heard him. The moment I first saw him sing it in his film of the same name, I immediately added it to my music collection.…
Today we look at Bruce Springsteen’s most popular song according to Spotify streams, with 1.2 billion plays (at the time of writing), well surpassing his next most streamed song, I’m On Fire, at 778 million. It’s easy to see why…
Bruce Springsteen’s Be True was one of those songs that somehow slipped through the cracks for me over the years, only to be rediscovered while researching this project. When I relistened to it after an absence of at least three…
Waitin’ On A Sunny Day is a song from The Rising, released by Bruce Springsteen in 2002 after the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11th, 2001. The record was dedicated to the victims, survivors and spirit of…
I’m always partial to a Bruce Springsteen love ballad, and Cautious Man is one I listened to a lot in my youth. Since undertaking this music library project, I’ve rediscovered many of his songs that had fallen through the cracks…
Tweeter and the Monkey Man” was really [written by] Tom Petty and Bob [Dylan]. Well, Jeff [Lynne] and I were there too, but they were just sitting there around in the kitchen, and he was for some reason talking about all this stuff that…
I have Bobby Jean in my project more for what it holds on a sentimental level now. I still like to hear it on occasion, but my fondness for it isn’t what it once was. Bruce was easily the most…