Poet, soothsayer, boss, shaman, future of rock and roll: Bruce Springsteen has had a lot of capes thrown around his shoulders throughout his career. But recently he realized he also had a bespoke accessory, a soulman cape languishing in his […]
Whenever times get tough, Bruce Springsteen summons the E Street Band. Turning up, tuning up, and rocking out like a celebratory army, the E Street Band has always been able to kick the daylights out of the darkness with a […]
Springsteen goes country. Or at least that’s the premise. But this latest Bruce outing doesn’t seem concerned with finding that perfect country and western song David Allen Coe yearned for in the 1975 Steve Goodman/John Prine-penned “You Never Even Called […]
Q: What was your introduction to music? How old were you, and how did it affect you? A: The first music I can remember was in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where I was born. I must have been three or […]
For Bruce Springsteen fans, hearing the two-disc Acoustic Radio Broadcast Collection will be a bit like Beatle lovers listening in on the Fab Four at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. The recently issued set includes his very first radio appearance, on […]
The final playlist is something that folks keep close to the heart. A thread through social media that became a topic on NPR hit home with this writer about songs to be played at their funeral. I must confess that […]
Springsteen On Broadway is acoustic, or a cappella, but its beginning is electric: Bruce Springsteen, alone, on a spare stage with his spotlight. There are a couple of barstools, a center microphone, a grand piano, two glasses of water. Against […]
OK, so I finally heard the Eric Church song “Springsteen.” (Showed up in my Twitter feed as an Austin City Limits performance: #countryfail.) To be honest, I didn’t listen all the way through. I’ve heard this song before. Well, figuratively. […]
If I didn’t write one more word past that title, it wouldn’t surprise me if you knew exactly which road I was driving down. Just six short words, part of a longer sentence, from the first verse of the second […]
Out of Kalamazoo, MI, have come winds of musical change and sonic transformation. Guys like Paul Hoffman take a mandolin and channel it like an instrument of telepathic immersion. Swimming in a third world where the spiritual erupts and slides […]
