In a better world, Land of Hope and Dreams would be our national anthem. It’s certainly my personal one.
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Roll of the Dice (599)
The maybe-true story of Warren Zevon’s sort-of half-cover of a lost Springsteen original.
There’s a truly great EP buried within this over-stuffed and thematically inconsistent album.
When Bruce announced his participation in the Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Tour in 1988, his re-arrangement and performance of this Bob Dylan classic became the title track of an EP released the following month.
Introduced without fanfare on the Seeger Sessions Tour, Bruce’s immigrant song grew into his summational statement and band tribute. Read the backstory and watch great performances inside.
Every fan knows it; every audience member is part of it: “Badlands” is Bruce’s anthem of steadfast resistance, persistence, and faith in his audience. It’s one of his very best songs.
An anthem cloaked as an elegy, a gospel wrapped in rock, “The Rising” is one of Bruce’s finest, most important, and most superbly crafted songs.
