Recorded during Bruce’s Nebraska period, “Wheels Make the World Go Round” was a promising rocker candidate at the wrong time.
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A gift to an old friend became the award-winning title song for one of the best films of 2008 and one of the most deeply empathic songs in Bruce’s catalog.
The only electric rocker on Nebraska, “Open All Night” was destined for greater heights than its original arrangement.
“Prove It All Night” is the heart of Darkness, rock’s most ferocious wedding song, and the closest thing to an E Street mission statement.
The maybe-true story of Warren Zevon’s sort-of half-cover of a lost Springsteen original.
On the 25th anniversary of American Babylon, Joe Grushecky and I take a look back at the making and meaning of Joe’s landmark album and his decades-long friendship with producer, co-writer, and collaborator Bruce Springsteen.
The closes thing to an E Street Band track on The Ghost of Tom Joad, this post-romantic ballad points the way to Western Stars in more ways than one.
It’s not nearly as well-known as its famous A-side, but “Shut Out the Light” is every bit as powerful (and even more harrowing) than “Born in the U.S.A.”
Will the real “Seeds” please stand up? Let’s take a listen to the many forms of this unreleased but vital entry in the Springsteen catalog.
A riff in search of a song, both “Tonight” and “Break My Heart” point the way to an underappreciated Tracks outtake.