“Fade Away” is a young man’s “Back in Your Arms,” a Danny Federici-powered cry of anguish over lost love. It’s beautiful and perfect–Bruce’s songwriting at its best.
Category: River
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Simultaneously morbid and mirthful, “Cadillac Ranch” bears surprisingly deep substance beneath its rollicking veneer.
Stark, dark, and brooding, the film noir-ish “Point Blank” dazzles with one of Bruce’s very best vocals and arrangements.
Into the river we dive, as we appreciate one of Bruce’s finest and most heartbreaking songs.
The road to “The River” continues with this early, based-on-a-true-story song about a laid-off construction worker longing to escape his hopeless circumstancs.
This early love song hasn’t aged well but it paved the way for Bruce’s more mature and nuanced reflections on love and marriage.
In any arrangement and any style, “You Can Look” is guaranteed to bring the fun to any show it appears in. Let’s trace its long and winding evolution inside.
Bruce proclaims “Crush on You” to be a masterpiece, and I agree. Only he’s being sarcastic, and I’m not.
A departure at the time, “Out in the Street” established a theme of community in Bruce’s songwriting that became a hallmark of the E Street Band experience.