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Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen update

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According to Pete Chianca at Blogness on the Edge of Town: “Springsteen on Broadway:” will be back on Broadway soon and it looks like it will be the same as the 2018-2019 version. Springsteen will release some music from the […]

Marketing “Darkness”

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Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town” that is. Backstreets recently posted the Columbia Records’ advanced marketing plan for the album (see above). It was released June 4, 1978.

Bruce Springsteen awarded Woodie Guthrie Prize

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From the Woody Guthrie Center website: The Woody Guthrie Prize is given annually to an artist who best exemplifies Woody Guthrie’s spirit and work by speaking for the less fortunate through music, film, literature, dance, or other art forms and […]

Bruce Springsteen on 1960s girl groups

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In this conversation with Lauren Onkey and Nona Hendryx, Springsteen talks about the influence of African-American girl groups on his music. He references Patty LaBelle & The Bluebelles, The Chantelles, The Shirelles, The Crystals, and The Ronettes. Springsteen says that […]

Nine Springsteen lyrics that won him the Woody Guthrie Prize

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Bruce Springsteen will be awarded the Woody Guthrie Prize on May 13, 2021. Here is NJ.Com: Bruce Springsteen can add another award to his many accolades as a singer, songwriter and artist. But it won’t be another Grammy, Tony or Oscar. The Woody Guthrie Center will present […]

Where does your state rank?

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I am from New Jersey. New Jersey is ranked 48th in this poll. At least we beat out Mississippi, Alabama, and the District of Columbia! Obviously these people have never experienced a sunset at the Jersey shore, wandered along the […]

Bruce Springsteen’s embrace of liberalism

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Yesterday we published Tony Norman’s piece on Renegades: Born in the U.S.A., the much acclaimed Obama-Springsteen podcast. Check it out here. Read Norman’s piece alongside Dennis M. Hogan’s essay at The Baffler. In “Runaway American Dreams,” Hogan traces Springsteen’s move […]

Episode 3 of “Renegades: Born in the USA” is here

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I finally got to listen to Episode 3 today. I learned: Obama encouraged Springsteen to do “Springsteen on Broadway” after the Boss did a private show at the White House in the final month of the Obama presidency. Springsteen played […]

From *Nebraska* to Jeep ads

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Tony Norman is right about the Springsteen Super Bowl ad. Watch it again: Here is his Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column on the ad: This is not Bruce Springsteen’s best work. Those of us of a certain age were immediately compelled to […]

Obama and Springsteen do a podcast

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It is called “Renegades: Born in the USA” and will eight episodes long. I imagine this was recorded before the Springsteen DWI case. I guess Spotify decided to release it anyway. Listen to the first two episodes at Spotify. Episode […]

January 20, 2021: From Amanda Gorman to Bruce Springsteen

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In his weekly column at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tony Norman reflects on Biden’s inauguration day. Here is a taste: Much has been made of the final lines of Ms. Gorman’s poem delivered with what we pray isn’t a futile hope […]