Category: Roll of the Dice (590)
Roll of the Dice: Secret to the Blues
The Bruce Springsteen Band morphed into the E Street Band so naturally that for all of 1973 and half of 1974, no one seemed to…
Roll of the Dice: The Wall
How an old newspaper article and unsettling dinner company inspired one of Bruce Springsteen’s most hauntingly moving songs.
Roll of the Dice: Water Station
Truly one time only, and never before heard: Bruce Springsteen joins local band Odin and creates a brand new song on the spot.
Cover Me: Hey, Western Union Man
Springsteen was unfamiliar with Jerry Butler until Jon Landau brought “Hey, Western Union Man” to his attention. He ended up covering several of Butler’s songs.
Cover Me: This Land Is Your Land
Bruce Springsteen found the soul of Woody Guthrie’s signature song and helped millions of Americans hear its true message for the first time.
Roll of the Dice: Livin' in the Future
The first song written for Magic is as timely today as it was prophetic twenty years ago.
Album Companion: The Ghost of Tom Joad
Bruce Springsteen’s eleventh studio album is one of his best-sounding and most thematically cohesive. It wears its influences on its sleeves, and we’ll explore them inside.
Roll of the Dice: Youngstown
In 1985, Bruce picked up a book on the new American underclass. When he finally opened and read it a decade later, it inspired one of the strongest songs on his next album.
Album Companion: Wrecking Ball
More than a decade on, Bruce’s seventeenth studio album stands as one of his very best–and the strongest E Street Band album to date.
Roll of the Dice: Rocky Ground
“Rocky Ground” may be wrapped in gospel trappings, but its themes are as Springsteenian as anything on Darkness on the Edge of Town.