The Bruce Springsteen Band debuted on this date in 1971. Listen to their first performance inside, plus more highlights from this date in history.
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Happy Birthday, Western Stars, released on this day in 2019. Plus: watch and listen to Bruce play with Phish, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Gary U.S. Bonds. More highlights inside.
On this date: Bruce releases his Devils & Dust album, debuts “Hello Sunshine,” and more.
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.
Bruce Springsteen’s most beautiful track ever is a cautionary tale about the destructive power of lies–both spoken and unspoken.
The shortest song on Western Stars is also the most poignant, a two-minute character study in loss and regret.
The second track on Western Stars is another song with an itinerant hero, one whose freedom came at a price.
Introducing guest-blogger Katy Crane in her first of hopefully many appearances. Today she offers a counter-take to my interpretation of “Western Stars.”
Bruce couldn’t have chose a more perfect song to end his Western Stars film with than the 1975 classic by a New York songwriter yearning to make it big as a western country star.
Western Stars is a travelogue, and it opens with a song that’s all about the ride.