Bruce Springsteen has announced a new box set titled Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition.
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Bruce Springsteen World Tour a Success
After 129 shows, the Springsteen and E Street Band 2023-25 Tour grossed $729.7 million and sold 4.9 million tickets, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. Any way you slice the data, it’s the biggest of his career.
My Life In 35 Songs, Track 15: “Thunder Road” by Bruce Springsteen
Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night
Saturday, May 30, 2009: that was the last night I ever performed on my high school stage. By that point, I’d set foot on that stage countless times: for musicals and choir concerts, for performances in front of school district administrators, for so many hours of rehearsals and practices. It got to be the kind of thing that you experience so many times you start to take it for granted. And then, suddenly, that story was over, and I was trying to wrap my head around how the place that had made me into a musician was about to be in my rearview.
“It’s a town full of losers, I’m pulling out of here to win.”
Those were the last words I ever sang on that stage by myself. There were other words that I shared, singing in harmony with fellow classmates. But that line, the iconic sign-off of Bruce Springsteen’s greatest song, became my sign-off, at least for my musical journey at that school and, really, for my entire high school experience.
On paper, it’s an appropriate line for a big coming-of-age moment. Sequenced at the very top of 1975’s Born to Run, “Thunder Road” is the Boss’s bold, brash invitation for a girl to run away with him. “My car’s out back if you’re ready to take that long walk/From your front porch to my front seat,” he sings at one point. Later, as the song barrels into its final verse, Springsteen ups the stakes: this town is crawling with ghosts, and if you stay here, the promise of your youth will be spent; “Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet.” So get in the car, baby, and let’s drive. Let’s drive so fast and so far that they can’t possibly follow us. Let’s get out of this town and never, ever look back.
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The first trailer for Deliver Me from Nowhere, the Bruce Springsteen biopic, has been released.
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Bruce Springsteen has shared the lost song, “Adelita.”
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Bruce Springsteen has released the Land of Hope & Dreams EP.
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Bruce Springsteen has shared the unreleased song “Repo Man.”
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Bruce Springsteen has shared the unreleased song “Faithless.”
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Bruce Springsteen has shared “Blind Spot” from the upcoming boxset.
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Bruce Springsteen will release Tracks II: The Lost Albums on June 27th. This will contain seven unreleased albums; 82 unreleased tracks. The album will be released in a vinyl boxset, on CD, and digitally.
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Bruce Springsteen joined Zach Bryan on stage in Philly. Some fan-shot videos can be found below.
Read More “The Boss Joins Zach Bryan on Stage”Review: Bruce Springsteen – Born In The U.S.A.
Die-hard Bruce Springsteen fans love to deride Born in the U.S.A. It’s their way of telling you they’re “real” fans, not those jumping on the bandwagon as Bruce blew up. On the contrary, they’re “cultured” enough to prefer the stark landscapes of Nebraska to the dated, synth-blasted ‘80s sound of U.S.A. They use words like “overplayed” and “overproduced” to describe the famed songwriter’s biggest record, while perhaps praising something more obscure like The Ghost of Tom Joad. And they’re probably tired of explaining to their friends that “Born in the U.S.A.,” the song, is not a jingoistic piece of macho rock, but actually a critique of pointless wars.
In general, I don’t get along with these people.
To be fair, Born in the U.S.A. is not Springsteen’s best record. I don’t think I’ve ever met a fan who prefers it to Born to Run, which is my favorite Boss record and my favorite record, period. It also seems pretty universally accepted that U.S.A. is inferior to the records that immediately followed Born to Run: Darkness on the Edge of Town and The River. Those three albums certainly function as the thematic core of Springsteen’s catalog in a way that his later material can’t compete with. But Born in the U.S.A. is also a lot deeper, more nuanced, and more complex than most people make it out to be.
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“Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band” will follow the band’s 2023-2024 world tour, featuring footage from band rehearsals and backstage moments, conversations with Springsteen as he develops the setlist and archival clips of the E Street Band. The project is intended to complement Springsteen’s existing body of autobiographical works, which includes the memoir “Born to Run,” the live performance (and documentary) “Springsteen on Broadway,” and the films “Western Stars” and “Letter to You.”
The documentary is directed by Thom Zimny, the longtime Springsteen collaborator behind “Western Stars” and “Springsteen on Broadway,” as well as music docs “The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash” and “Willie Nelson & Family.” Zimny also produces alongside Springsteen, Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau, Adrienne Gerard and Sean Stuart.
Bruce Springsteen Announces Greatest Hits Album
Bruce Springsteen has announced a new greatest hits album. The 18-song collection will be out on April 19th and pre-orders are now up.
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Bruce Springsteen is reportedly working on a Nebraska feature film:
Sources say that Springsteen has been consulting on a possible feature film about the making of his watershed 1982 album, “Nebraska.”
I’m told Bruce has been collaborating with director-writer Scott Cooper, whose six terrific films include “Crazy Heart,” about a washed up country singer. Jeff Bridges won the 2010 Oscar for starring in that one, the movie also won Best Song. Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.