Tag: Wrecking Ball (27)
Roll of the Dice: Jack of All Trades
Perhaps the most carefully constructed song on Bruce’s Wrecking Ball album, “Jack of All Trades” is both musically and (sadly) lyrically timeless.
Roll of the Dice: You've Got It
It’s an okay trifle, but whatever makes a pop song great, “You’ve Got It” ain’t got it.
Roll of the Dice: Shackled and Drawn
Part work song, part call to action, and one of Bruce’s best and most Springsteenian songs, “Shackled and Drawn” is also Bruce’s best show opener ever.
Roll of the Dice: Swallowed Up (In the Belly of the Whale)
A bonus track that could have been a title track, “Swallowed Up” is the thematic centerpiece of one of Bruce’s strongest albums.
Roll of the Dice: This Depression
Years before he openly confessed his lifelong battle with depression, Bruce hid it in plain sight as the centerpiece of his Wrecking Ball album.
Where the Band Was: Stockholm, May 3, 2013
Introducing our first guest blogger: Stray Bullet’s Anna Lind shares her first-hand report from Bruce’s Wrecking Ball show in Stockholm.
Where the Band Was: Buffalo, November 22, 2009
No one could have known that this was Clarence’s final show. But it almost seems like Bruce did, because it’s hard to imagine a more fitting tribute to their friendship.
Roll of the Dice: We Are Alive
“We Are Alive” delivers one of Bruce’s most hopeful messages through his some of his most macabre imagery–quite an impressive feat.
Where the Band Was: East Rutherford, August 23, 2016
The River Tour begins its morph into the “Autobiography Tour” as the ten-show victory lap kicks off in East Rutherford.
Cover Me, Michelle Moore and the Alliance Singers: Rocky Ground
Michelle Moore steps to the forefront to make “Rocky Ground” her own.