Bruce Springsteen

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By Glen Boyd Next question: Is this the end of the road?

Not only did Springsteen choose a great song for the job, he and the band turned in a powerful, smoldering, roof-raising, paint-peeling version of a classic. "She's the One," from Born to Run, was explosive, energetic, loud, and raucous. ...

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 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 David Bowling Bruce Springsteen returned in April of 2005 with Devils & Dust, which, in songs of turmoil and through his use of American imagery, recalled his creative past.The work garnered five Grammy Awards, including one for Best Contemporary Folk Album as well as honors for Song Of The Year, B...

By David Bowling I own just about the entire Bruce Springsteen catalog, but I have to say that Tunnel Of Love is not an album I have visited very often in recent years. I had to re-introduce myself to the music of this release and it was a pleasant trip.Tunnel Of Love was released in October of 1987 and marked anot...

By David Bowling So what do you do when you're not only creatively respected, but have also sold millions of records and can consistently sell out stadiums and arenas? Bruce Springsteen’s answer was to release a stark, mostly acoustic, back-to-basics album named Nebraska. Springsteen recorded the son...

By David Bowling The River — a sprawling two-record set that reached Number One on the American charts in 1980 — solidified Bruce Springsteen’s commercial appeal while elevating him into the upper echelon of critically acclaimed artists.This release is really two different types of albums woven toget...

By David Bowling When Bruce Springsteen’s first two albums had been released to critical acclaim but were considered to have been commercial failures, the artist went back into the studio to try and create a breakthrough album. What finally emerged from these sessions was one of the best rock albums in mu...

 OH - Bruce Springsteen’s “Atlantic City” is a superlative rendition. The Band proved that their 1993 incarnation could rock. Springsteen considered this track a ...

By Mark Saleski What a great morning. I took a break from my normal work day to visit Amazon.com to purchase the just-released Bruce Springsteen Magic Tour Highlights EP. It's a digital-only thing which pretty much puts me on shaky ground. Let's total up the number of times I've bought digital music: 2. Yessir...

By Glen Boyd Don't ask me how these things make their way to the Internet, but thank God they do. And in this case, they made it to cyberspace in both audio and video. Ah, the wonders of technology...As anyone who has seen Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band on the current world tour for the Magic album alrea...

By Donald Gibson An accordion lay beneath a lone spotlight. Meanwhile, nine musicians stood onstage in solemn tribute, their backs turned from the audience as they looked up at a giant screen. To the soundtrack of “Blood Brothers” playing over the PA system, a video montage memorialized Danny Federici – f...

By Donald Gibson Danny Federici, founding member of the E Street Band, died Thursday at age 58 following a three-year battle with melanoma.On his official website, Bruce Springsteen pays tribute to his bandmate and friend, writing, “Danny and I worked together for 40 years - he was the most wonderfully f...

By Donald Gibson In a letter posted Wednesday on his official website, Bruce Springsteen announces his endorsement of Democratic Senator Barack Obama for president. “I have now seen enough to know where I stand,” the musician writes. “Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest.”An out...

By Mark Saleski Some people are just never satisfied.There's this sort of "fan" in the Springsteen world who seems to spend all of his time complaining. It's one of those "can't win" situations because it hardly matters what Bruce does: it's just wrong. Josh Hathaway and his mysterious and knowledgeable c...

By John Reed Now I'm not just talking about Bruce Springsteen -- the guy who had been experimenting with musical styles, playing the troubadour and singing the songs of Pete Seeger -- but The Boss. The oh-so-proud to be from New Jersey native who ...

Nicole Atkins isn't your typical singer. But when you find out that she's from New Jersey, it makes so much more sense. She's actually from Neptune City, New Jersey, hence the album title. Anyone who has ever listened to Bruce Springsteen can almost immediately recognize the similar Americ...

By Mark Saleski Radio Nowhere" hung over the crazed Hartford Civic Center crowd. A count-off lead into the crashing opening chords of "The Ties That Bind" and we were off. Off to the beginning of another album, tour, and era in the E-Street Band's...

By Daryl D In late March of 1992, Bruce Springsteen, attempting to copy the success of Guns N’ Roses' Lose Your Illusion I and II, released two albums: Human Touch and Lucky Town. Both albums generally received good reviews but were largely ignored by the general public. Even though both albums debut...

By Mark Saleski Every so often (and for my taste, not nearly often enough) Bruce Springsteen puts out a new release, reissue, or box set. If you put your ear to the conch shell of the Internet, the sound can be deafening. To shut out some of the noise, three Springsteen obsessives quietly convene to toss aroun...

By Daryl D While Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin certainly won’t bring back some of the fans he’s lost over the years, it will remind them why they became fans in the first place: Bruce Springsteen is a passionate performer who not only enjoys what he’s doing, but enjoys his a...

By Ginger Haycox Steve is a songwriter with an easy-going introspective, who, at his beginnings, was like a lot of other talented singer/songwriters who happened to play acoustic guitar and harp-on-a-rack, he was touted to be the ‘next Dylan’. A hefty handle for a young 21 year old kid from Mississippi to...

By Al Barger Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band Live in Dublin has 23 songs on two CDs, and there's also a DVD version. (Note that the DVD is cheaper than the CDs.) The Sessions Band rates higher musically in my book than the E Street Band. I'm particularly interested in hearing what they've done with...

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...

By Mark Saleski A document (audio and visual) of what a typical Seeger Sessions show was like. Undoubtedly, this is first on my list this week. The show I attended last year was phenomenal, a sort of carnival raveup crossed with E Street intensity. Acoustic en Vivo - Los Lobos - (Rider's Block)/Rock

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...

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 Jeff Martin As a reviewer, I've never felt dwarfed by a band whose album I was about to critique. From Springsteen to the Shins, I've always been able to take a step back and listen to the music without feeling an attachment to the artist. But when They Might Be Giants' new album, The Else, arrived in my mail...

By Nick Deriso I understand what John Mellencamp was thinking. He options "Our Country" from this album to Chevrolet, knowing that new songs by mid-career guys don't get much airplay these days. Chevy reruns the thing every time they play football on TV. All of a sudden, Mellencamp has a hit -- Freedom's Ro...

By Josh Hathaway Like most of her folk, gospel and soul-inspired music, "Trouble" has a low key way of achieving a certain loftiness about it. It starts with Wright's empathetic, gentle vocal, and is perfectly supported by the sparse, efficient production, putting Wright's rhythmic acoustic guitar up...

By Josh Hathaway Earlier this week, a guy I work with surprised me with a burnt copy of a 1974 Neil Young show from The Bottom Line. What made this show so special is that it features ultra-rare live versions of nearly all of the songs from On The Beach, which is in my mind the most underated record in Neil Young's...

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 Mark Saleski Bill Chinnock was a major player in the early Asbury Park scene. As Vini "Maddog" Lopez said, "Bill was the BOSS before Bruce." Before moving to Maine in his early 20's, he played in a number of bands with future E-Streeters Lopez, Gary Tallent, Danny Federici, and David Sancious. Like Spring...

By Mark Saleski Mark Saleski is a writer and music obsessive based out of the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. On his best day, he hopes to channel the ghosts of Lester Bangs and Jack Kerouac. He spends the hours of 9:30PM to 1:30AM carving out music reviews and essays for The Mondo Project, Blogcritics.org...

By Glen Boyd And what about that Springsteen guy, some may find themselves asking. You know, the guy whose continuing "relevance" was a subject of some debate recently right here at Blogcritics Magazine? After all, isn't Springsteen -- the guy whose songs champion the values of the working class -- a...

By Daryl D It would be ignorant, even among Bruce’s most harsh detractors, not to admit that the so-called Boss has come out with some memorable albums: Born To Run; Nebraska; Born in The USA; and his last relevant album, Tunnel of Love. Since then, however, Bruce Springsteen has become an absolute p...

By Daryl D Bruce Springsteen (along with Bono) has always been the most overrated ... has come out with some memorable albums: Born To Run; Nebraska; Born in The USA; ... he certainly didn’t have much to lose either.1995: The Ghost of Tom Joad ...

 OH - Compatriots with Pete Seeger, inspiration to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and millions of others. The voice of a generation and to the common man. ...

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...

 OH - Bruce Springsteen was once the real thing. "Born to Run" starts with a minimally epic and iconic opening. Mixing in a simple saxophone run and bare-bones ...

By Bryan Price Bruce Springsteen though, has authored albums that stand alone in the American canon: the defiantly lonely Nebraska, the messy, spoilt-broth masterpiece The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle and the singularly thrilling Born to Run — a magical love letter to the (often vehi...

By DJRadiohead Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions: I have been ... Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band – Hammersmith Odeon, London 1975: This, ... This souvenir from the Born to Run tour is a must own for any serious rock and ...

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 ...