Bruce Springsteen

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) Bruce Springsteen in St Louis the next night. In short, a disappointment. If you had never seen him before, it would have been splendid, but considering how phenomenal the show was the previous year, this one fell flat on all accounts. The biggest issue was the holdover of the same songs from l...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) Forty-minutes into Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s recent Chicago show, Springsteen began to tell the crowd how he was about to be dropped by his record label after two unsuccessful records back in 1974. Everything was on the line and they knew they had to deliver a tremendous rec...

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By Mark Saleski You know, every time I go to a Bruce show, I come out of there thinking it was the best one ever. A few days later, after the adrenaline levels drop back to normal, memories of past concerts come back into focus: "Wait... what about back in...?"This morning, the adrenaline obliterated by not nearly e...

By Mark Saleski Writing without the crystal ball.

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) Jamsbio Magazine has a great review of the new Bruce Springsteen record at this link. I don't agree with it and am sticking to my 2 1/2 star review, but this is a good read and well written. It's worth checking out. Bob Dylan appears to be shocking everyone with the release of a new record in April.

By Daniel Kreps We thought “The Wrestler” worked perfectly soundtracking a black screen and rolling credits at the end of The Wrestler, but it’s just as harrowing as a music video. Springsteen stands center ring, caressing the ropes of one of those old school boxing rings you’d see Rocky training in. Add a...

By Maura Johnston Bruce Springsteen published a journal (oh, c'mon, Bruce, just call it a blog) about his Super Bowl experience on his official Web site, and it wasn't just a "thanks to all the fans we love you!!1one" post (although there was certainly some fan appreciation within)—it was a pretty great yo...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) By Anthony KuzminskiBack in 2006, shortly after Bruce Springsteen released We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, I was trying to convince a friend of mine to go and see the concert tour in support of the album. He was defiant in his negativity. I asked him if he had listened to the album. He re...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) After completing The Rising tour in October 2003, Springsteen laid low for the better part of a year. In 2004, he did two significant things. First he took the E Street Band out on the controversial Vote For Change tour raising money and awareness for the upcoming presidential election. Seco...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) Bruce Springsteen-Tracks By Anthony KuzminskiSo now that you’ve seen Springsteen’s Super Bowl Half Time performance it’s awoken your inner rock star and you want to revisit some of his music. Where to start? Well, Best Buy has his 3-disc Essential collection this week for $12 ($2 more th...

By Mike Barthel What else would you want from Bruce Springsteen, right? Sanctifying American iconography is what he does, and what people love him for. Roads, radios, bars, Saturday night—they pass through his pen and they seem immortal. But the almost universally negative reaction it's receiving rev...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) The evening was a jukebox full of rarities and classics where Springsteen beautifully weaved his past and present into collective whole where no one song felt out of place. I can’t say the same about every concert I’ve ever seen, but the band hit all the right notes this night. “Drive All Nigh...

By Lucas Jensen Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Prince, The Rolling Stones, Sir Paul McCartney: After this Sunday, this list will be the answer to the question "Who were the last five Super Bowl halftime show performers?" Boomer-friendly and safe-for-TV in the wake of Nipplegate, these big five have co...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) The disc is missing a number of high profile songs including “Blinded By The Light”, “Jungleland”, “Prove It All Night”, “The Promised Land”, “The River” and four top-ten hits from Born in the U.S.A.. Then there’s assorted live tracks and close to thirty songs from this decade they could have...

By rss@youtube.com (JobingArena) Springsteen recently performed at the Presidential Inauguration and is set to perform this Sunday at Super Bowl XLIII. He also just won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song from the motion picture The Wrestler. His new album, Working on a Dream, (released today on Columbia Records)...

12. The Last Carnival: This track is believed to be about Danny Federici, acoustic guitar work in this track, I wonder if it's Springsteen playing - work by the Springsteen and Scialfa ... a very nice tribute to a dear friend. Springsteen includes a little bit of the eulogy in the CD booklet

By 30daysout Springsteen has certainly traveled this territory before, from the open-road longing of “Thunder Road” to the hard-won appreciation of life’s little victories on the closing songs of The River.   But he’s older and wiser, and he knows with every triumph life can serve up a side order of h...

By Glen Boyd Bruce Springsteen's third album with the E Street Band this decade -- and his second in just under two years -- is, on an initial listen at least, something of a mixed bag. On the positive side, Working On A Dream also represents what could be the most stylistically varied collection of new so...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) By Anthony KuzminskiWhen Bruce Springsteen emerged with Born To Run in 1975, he was put on an altar by the rock press. He embodied all of what rock n’ roll had stood for its inaugural generation and everything they hoped it would be in the future. For the better part of the last few decades, Spri...

By tonemarrowreviews One thing is for sure, the new, happy Springsteen is nowhere near as fun as the angry, fiery Springsteen that has been a prophet of rock’n'roll for more than three decades. The Boss’ ’70s work was a Van Morrison-inspired blend of rock, R&B, and a little funk in which he sang what were basi...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) Guilty by association. These three words explain the predicament of Lucky Town better than any other in the English language. I had initially planned on reviewing both Lucky Town and Human Touch in one review (like everyone else did in 1992) due to a tight schedule that would allow for Sprin...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) Between the release of Tunnel of Love in October 1987 and the release of Human Touch in March of 1992, Bruce Springsteen did the following: • Toured with E Street Band in 1988 • Disbanded the E Street Band providing them all with (rumored) seven-figure severance checks. Human Touch"

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) Bruce Springsteen-Tunnel of Love Things got even more interesting on 'Tunnel of Love’…a remarkable bunch of tunes, where our leader starts having a go at himself, and the hypocrisy of his own heart, before anyone else could. But the tabloids could never break news on Bruce Springsteen. Be...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) Bruce Springsteen – ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ By Anthony KuzminskiThe granddaddy of all Bruce Springsteen albums, Born in the U.S.A. was where he finally broke through to the mainstream in an immense fashion. Back in the mid-1980’s, I was too young to appreciate the music of the time, but even I knew wh...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska By Anthony KuzminskiWhat happens if life doesn’t work out the way you planned? That was the question Bruce Springsteen pondered as he began to write his sixth album, the noir-like Nebraska. Recorded (mostly) on January 3, 1982 in his home bedroom, the end res...

By Daniel Kreps Bruce Springsteen beat out Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus and Peter Gabriel to take home a Golden Globe last night, winning Best Original Song for “The Wrestler,” from the Darren Aronofsky film of the same name. The Globe nod was Springsteen’s second: He also won in 1994 for Philadelphia’s “Street...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) The Bruce Springsteen who wrote and recorded Born To Run was a ghost by the time his fourth album, Darkness on the Edge of Town was recorded and released in 1978. The wide-eyed virtue previously found on tracks such as “Night”, “Born To Run” and “Thunder Road” was long gone. In its place was no l...

By ANTHONY KUZMINSKI(noreply@blogger.com) “Tenth Avenue Freezeout”, “Born To Run”, “Glory Days” and “Rosalita” showered down on the crowd as the band gleefully tore through them with a vengeance and awakening those who were still there. Even the unknown “American Land” managed to evoke a strong reaction. The encore raised a rucku...

By The MOG-GAZETTE Craig Finn talks about meeting Bruce Springsteen and The Clash’s Joe Strummer. Plus the music that changed his life: Husker Du, The Clash, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and more. Plus: http://mog.com/Michael_Goldberg/blog/180550 Gnarls Barkley: Hail, Hail, Rock ‘n’ Roll!

By Chris Gray Escovedo - who had never even seen Springsteen live before - missed soundcheck, but was able to rehearse the song with Springsteen twice in the Boss' dressing room before Springsteen called the entire band in. So how was it? How do you think?

Concert Review: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Atlanta, GA When keyboardist Danny Federici lost his long battle with cancer last week, the E Street Band's immortality was in question. This was one, I thought, ... Springsteen show pays tribute to friends News & Observer

In the wake of all the in-depth analysis on DC9 at Night about the burning question of whether Bruce Springsteen’s Dallas or Houston show was “better,” I now find myself lost in the fallout of Friday’s show by the... In the wake of all the in-depth analysis on DC9 at Night about the burning quest...

By SoulBoogieAlex Recently I started collecting 45s of songs covered by Springsteen. One of the main attractions to Springsteen for me is how his work covers much of R&R's rich history. In covers alone the man has done over a thousand songs ranging from Buddy Holly to Pearl Jam. In recent years he's been dig...

Rock stars don't come in sizes larger than Bruce Springsteen," I wrote in my review. "There are plenty of good reasons why Springsteen is so popular. ... Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band WFtv.com CONCERT REVIEW | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Bruce and his band leave it all ... Columbus Dispatch

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Long Walk Home" (Magic) - Not sure ... wasn't memorable really. Jungleland" (Born To Run) - Sigh ... it's still hard to believe he wrote this at 23 - what an epic track ... and Clarence was the King ... this has grown to be one of my favorite Springsteen tracks. 9 Guitar Picks on 10

Long Walk Home" (Magic) - Not sure ... wasn't memorable really. Jungleland" (Born To Run) - Sigh ... it's still hard to believe he wrote this at 23 - what an epic track ... and Clarence was the King ... this has grown to be one of my favorite Springsteen tracks. 9 Guitar Picks on 10

By bh BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Magic (Columbia) pounds 12.99: 4/5: Last year they released 14 October 2007 to roots. For Magic , Springsteen is back with the E-Street Band for the first Nebraska or The Ghost of Tom Joad . This album is, as the Boss announces on the

LiveDaily.com) There are few American musical acts--or, for that matter, many rock-and-roll bands anywhere--that have matured as well as New Jersey's Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. As the body of Springsteen's work grows, each progressive offering seems to take on its own age...

By heather BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Mountain of Love Born To Run Intro to E Street Shuffle E Street Shuffle Wings For Wheels" (Thunder Road, first performance) Spirit In The Night She's The One Growin' Up Saint In The City Jungleland Kitty's Back New York City Serenade 4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy)

By Glen Boyd As big a Bruce Springsteen fan as I am -- and I've seen the man in concert 32 times -- I was not exactly crazy onboard for the Seeger Sessions project when it was first announced last year. I just figured that after a year of Springsteen doing the acoustic thing on the Devils & Dust album and t...

Bruce Springsteen New Jersey's favorite son stretches far beyond his usual fare in this concert DVD done live in his ancestral homeland, which captures his adventurous (and ultimately brilliant) foray into music most closely associated ...

By Gray Hunter The songwriting is heartfelt. It’s got the sincerity of Springsteen or maybe the latter day Bon Jovi. Each song has a sense of reality, of connection. Additionally, there is the ever present feeling of defiance. That’s an essential part of good old punk rock and it breaks through in the rough r...

By Glen Boyd I have to admit that what drew me to this book was its title, which of course comes from the lyric of a certain little tune about the "runaway American dream" by Bruce Springsteen. This isn't, however, about Springsteen, though he is mentioned in passing a few times. If you are already sensing...

Music Review: Bruce Springsteen- In Concert: MTV Unplugged I’ma self-confessed Springsteen fan. I have been since the first time I heard "The Boss" playing on the radio. That was over 23 years ago, and I am still a ... Music Review: Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits Blogcritics.org

By Janine Macdonald The whole album is very much a pop album, and Springsteen displays some of his best pop writing style ever on this. "Dancing In The Dark," "Bobby Jean," "Glory Days," and "No Surrender" are fine examples of this. But as mentioned earlier, there is darkness behind these pop songs. "Dancing In T...

By Josh Hathaway For the longest time I have resisted the urge to become a Bruce Springsteen. Sure, there was the odd single here and there that I dug ("Glory Days" immediately comes to mind) but he always seemed to be so earnest and political, that it just rubbed me the wrong way. Then I bought The Seeger Sessio...

By Glen Boyd Concentrating on songs from all three records (the tour is billed as the "Morning Day & Night" tour and focuses on the idea of the three releases as a trilogy of sorts), Yorn himself shifted comfortably between acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, and of course vocals, backed b...

By El Bicho His other influences, from Steve Wonder to Bruce Springsteen, can be felt throughout the album. "Darling I" has a definite Springsteen root in the beat and rhythm of the drums and guitar. The song is about an old relationship that's ...

By By The Editors This week' s cover review, an assessment of a pile of new books about Bruce Springsteen, is written by A. O. Scott, a Times film critic, who says he came to Springsteen' s music fairly late. ' ' When I was in high school I thought I was way too cool and cutting edge to listen to him,' ' Scott said in a te...