Bruce Springsteen
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Good-Bye to the Big Man
Songs of Nuclear Horror
Time to Write Off New Orleans?
Come On Up For The Rising
Even though Bruce Springsteen has just started hitting the road for Barack--Philly on Saturday, Ypsilanti today--his songs have been staples of Obama campaign events pretty much since the beginning. In particularly heavy rotation has been "The Rising," a song--as Boss historian Reverend Jeffrey B. Symynkywicz explains for us here--that has seen its meaning altered since it first came out in 2002. READ MORE >>
The Screen Door Slams. . . .
The day after Johnny Cash died, I happened to have tickets to see Bruce Springsteen in concert. He opened the show sitting on a stool and played a dirge-like cover of 'Walk the Line' that was about as perfect a song as I've heard in concert. Via Ross Douthat, I see that Springsteen performed a similar feat with 'Thunder Road' at Tim Russert's memorial service: READ MORE >>
Quadrennial Springsteen Campaign Song Blogging
One more, very critical note from Toledo... READ MORE >>
