In memory of Donald Stephen Rosen (December 23, 1942 – August 12, 2021)
Category: Roll of the Dice
This lost companion piece to “Hungry Heart” has only ever been officially released to friends and family with Bruce’s private number.
This romantic slow song has its fans, but its creator isn’t among them. When Bruce finally relented and released it, he hid it away as best he could.
When Bruce’s early band Steel Mill needed a palate cleanser during their heavy sets, they often turned to this drunkenly loose and sassy lark.
Bruce turns the essential, existential question of rock and roll into a 2007 shoulda-been-a-hit single.
Bruce’s last great hit was a defining moment for his career and a pinnacle of his songwriting.
Bruce took inspiration from Pete Seeger’s 1966 anti-war protest song and a Civil War classic and forged a heartfelt song of his own.
This remarkable (and remarkably clear) 1970 blues is marred only by Bruce’s cringe-y (but historically significant) on-stage story.
From the Bruce Springsteen Band era comes a braggadocious, light-on-its feet number that’s as close to jazz as you’ll ever hear Bruce get.
The most mature and intimate song on Tunnel of Love cloaks itself in carnival imagery and telegraphs things to come.