At the center of Bruce’s Letter to You album lies the summational song of Bruce’s songwriting career.
Month: January 2017
Fifty years after they played together, Bruce Springsteen found himself the last surviving member of his very first band.
The decade-long and winding tale of an early outtake that missed making three albums but ended up (sorta) on one by Warren Zevon.
It sticks out like a musical sore thumb, but lyrically “Burnin’ Train” is right at home on Letter to You with its theme of longevity through great sex.
Love the song, hate the track: “Letter to You” is my new “Real World.”
Bruce opens his most recent album by directly reckoning with death.
There’s a truly great EP buried within this over-stuffed and thematically inconsistent album.