The Bruce Springsteen Band morphed into the E Street Band so naturally that for all of 1973 and half of 1974, no one seemed to…
Category: Roll of the Dice
How an old newspaper article and unsettling dinner company inspired one of Bruce Springsteen’s most hauntingly moving songs.
“Janey Needs a Shooter” traces its origins back to this one-time-only Bruce Springsteen Band homage to a 1964 hit single by Curtis Mayfield.
“The first verse actually happened. The second verse mostly happened, and the third verse, of course, is happening now.” –Bruce Springsteen, Greatest Hits, 1994…
Truly one time only, and never before heard: Bruce Springsteen joins local band Odin and creates a brand new song on the spot.
Springsteen was unfamiliar with Jerry Butler until Jon Landau brought “Hey, Western Union Man” to his attention. He ended up covering several of Butler’s songs.
Bruce Springsteen found the soul of Woody Guthrie’s signature song and helped millions of Americans hear its true message for the first time.
The first song written for Magic is as timely today as it was prophetic twenty years ago.
Bruce Springsteen’s eleventh studio album is one of his best-sounding and most thematically cohesive. It wears its influences on its sleeves, and we’ll explore them inside.
In 1985, Bruce picked up a book on the new American underclass. When he finally opened and read it a decade later, it inspired one of the strongest songs on his next album.