Category: Roll of the Dice (590)
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Roll of the Dice: Loose Ends
June 23, 2022
By Ken Rosen
This lush but dark River-era outtake is one of Bruce’s best songs that never made an official studio album.
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Roll of the Dice: Long Time Comin'
June 19, 2022
By Ken Rosen
The final chapter in Bruce’s father-and-son songwriting.
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Roll of the Dice: Somewhere North of Nashville
June 9, 2022
By Ken Rosen
The shortest song on Western Stars is also the most poignant, a two-minute character study in loss and regret.
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Roll of the Dice: Man's Job
May 30, 2022
By Ken Rosen
This Stax/Volt homage (featuring Sam Moore himself) is an unjustly overlooked gem from Bruce’s early 1990s era.
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Roll of the Dice: The Virgin Flower
May 22, 2022
By Ken Rosen
Let’s take another trip into Bruce’s 1968 Notebook with a lengthy entry that reads more like a poem than a song.
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Roll of the Dice: Backstreets
May 14, 2022
By Ken Rosen
A forbidden love leads to a bitter betrayal in one of Bruce’s most powerful epics.
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Roll of the Dice: Candy's Room
May 2, 2022
By Ken Rosen
Our third and final installment on the long road from “Candy’s Boy” to “Candy’s Room”
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Roll of the Dice: I Wanna Marry You
April 22, 2022
By Ken Rosen
This early love song hasn’t aged well but it paved the way for Bruce’s more mature and nuanced reflections on love and marriage.
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Roll of the Dice: Roulette
April 16, 2022
By Ken Rosen
Just days after the worst accident in American nuclear power history, Bruce wrote his most urgent and topical song yet.
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Roll of the Dice: In Michigan
April 12, 2022
By Ken Rosen
In a bolt of pre-show inspiration, Bruce wrote one of his all-time greatest songs for an appreciative Michigan audience.