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Bruce Springsteen

Song of the Day

John Fea   |  September 11, 2023

Remembering our fallen heroes:...

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Springsteen rocks Met Life Stadium

John Fea   |  September 1, 2023

He’s back in Jersey! Blogness on the Edge of Town has the set list and the rest of the videos....

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Song of the Day

John Fea   |  July 4, 2023

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Song of the Day

John Fea   |  June 2, 2023

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Springsteen reads a fan’s research paper during a concert in Edinburgh

John Fea   |  June 1, 2023

Nathan Collet‘s University of Nottingham 12,000 word research paper (it looks like a master’s thesis) was titled, “Brilliant Disguises: An Analysis of Masculinity Through the Works and Life of Bruce Springsteen.” I’ll let the Daily Record take it from here:...

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“I remember Dad whispering, just before the last verse began, ‘Here’s the kicker, listen.'”

John Fea   |  May 19, 2023

When I saw Bruce Springsteen at Penn State University earlier this year he opened the concert with “No Surrender“; Well we busted out of classHad to get away from those foolsWe learned more from a three-minute recordBaby, than we ever...

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Bruce Springsteen and Flannery O’Connor

John Fea   |  May 10, 2023

We are gearing-up for the new season of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. If I can find the funding, I would like to try to do weekly episodes through the rest of 2023. One of the guests I...

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Song of the Day

John Fea   |  April 2, 2023

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Video of the Day

John Fea   |  March 20, 2023

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Springsteen fans: See you in State College

John Fea   |  March 15, 2023

I didn’t think it would happen. I wasn’t sure I wanted it to happen. But my family managed to score some tickets to Bruce Springsteen’s Saturday night show on the campus of Penn State University. Springsteen shows are family events...

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Sometimes the “robber barons” and “greedy thieves” bring “death” to our hometown. Backstreets magazine closes shop.

John Fea   |  February 6, 2023

In July, 2022, the editors of the Bruce Springsteen fan magazine Backstreets responded to outrageously high ticket prices for Springsteen’s current tour. If you aren’t familiar with this story, get up to speed here and here. For the first time...

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Jim Cullen on Bruce Springsteen’s first album

John Fea   |  January 11, 2023

Columbia Records released Greetings from Asbury Park on January 5, 1973. Jim Cullen, the dean of Springsteen scholars, reflects at The Washington Post: Fifty years ago this week, a scruffy young artist from New Jersey released his first album. In...

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Episode 106: “Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Long Walk Home'”

John Fea   |  December 5, 2022

In this episode we chat with historian Jonathan D. Cohen about his edited collectionĀ Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce SpringsteenĀ and the current state of “Springsteen Studies.”Ā We also ask Cohen if there is any connection between his current book,Ā For a Dollar...

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Song of the Day

John Fea   |  December 1, 2022

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Is it “Mary’s dress sways” or “Mary’s dress waves”?

John Fea   |  November 15, 2022

A lot of Springsteen news here, including the Boss responding to rumors that he will be part of the Taylor Swift tour. Watch:...

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Bruce Springsteen’s St. Louis fan

John Fea   |  November 13, 2022

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Springsteen’s Nebraska at 40

John Fea   |  November 2, 2022

Well, now everything dies, baby, that’s a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City –Springsteen, “Atlantic City,” Nebraska, 1982 Here is a...

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Springsteen talks to Howard Stern

John Fea   |  November 2, 2022

Here are some clips: On the changing music scene and Taylor Swift’s new album: Bruce talks about the Clarence Clemons solo, the piano opening in “Jungleland,” and writing Born to Run and Thunder Road on a piano: The Rising: Bruce...

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The 4 New Jersey regions

John Fea   |  October 19, 2022

Here’s a fun post for our New Jersey readers. Over at New Jersey 101.5, Bill Spadea moves beyond the “North Jersey” vs. “South Jersey” divide by suggesting that there are actually 4 New Jersey regions: North Jersey, Central Jersey, the...

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Springsteen joins The Killers for “Born to Run”

John Fea   |  October 14, 2022

Springsteen seems ready for his upcoming tour. So does Jake Clemons. Watch:...

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