This under-the-radar Born in the U.S.A. outtake is the darkest in Bruce’s “car crash song” mini-genre.
Category: Roll of the Dice
Bruce and Joe Grushecky wrote this under-the-radar song together in the summer of ’95; it keeps popping up in new forms ever since.
Did a holiday father-son roadtrip inspire this Bruce Springsteen Band gem? We may never know, but with a groove this funky, who cares?
In 1977, Bruce had a killer backing track in search of some lyrics. The search continues.
Into the river we dive, as we appreciate one of Bruce’s finest and most heartbreaking songs.
This gorgeous Jackson Browne-ian work-in-progress ballad might have made for a gorgeous song had Bruce completed it.
A lost original Springsteen song survives as a Red Bank Rockers instrumental–but whatever happened to the lyrics?
Bruce’s existential, soul-searching, Rorschach Test of a song ranks among is either one of his most haunting or uplifting–it just depends on the arrangement.
This lost Nebraska-era outtake features one of Bruce’s early attempts to grapple with gun violence.
In which Bruce wears his influence so much on his sleeve that it’s practically a “Peggy Sue” tattoo.