It’s one of Joe and Bruce’s best songwriting collaborations and on-stage moments, as fresh today as it was when they wrote it a quarter-century ago.
Category: Roll of the Dice
From way back in Bruce’s short-lived college days comes this earliest of his published writing.
It’s big and brassy; it swings and it struts. And more than any other song in Bruce’s catalog, no two performances are alike.
Bruce’s original River-era composition, a stellar E Street Band performance and Gary’s passionate vocals make for a standout track on an album full of them.
It’s one of Bruce’s most audacious songs ever, a ten-minute, waltz-time, post-apocalyptic allegory for the decline of civilization.
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.
Recorded twice, performed dozens of times, yet it still flies under the radar for most fans.
Twelve years later, Bruce revisited his narrator from “Brothers Under the Bridges ’83,” now haunted by the war that awaited him.
A love song for anyone who’s tried to save someone who couldn’t be saved.
Bruce worked on two different songs by the same name during the Born in the U.S.A. sessions–and this is the lesser known of the two.