This early post-Nebraska outtake sows the seeds for an entire crop of cautionary tales.
Category: Roll of the Dice
Fifty years after they played together, Bruce Springsteen found himself the last surviving member of his very first band.
It’s a bit of a mess on its own merits, but this early Steel Mill song paved the way for a Born to Run classic years later.
An early Wild and Innocent outtake based on a still-standing bar bears the seeds of classic songs still to come.
Jon Landau logs a lone performer credit on this obscure hybrid outtake from the Darkness era.
This Nebraska-era demo uses cinematic vocabulary to devastating effect.
An ode to never growing up that never gets old.
Bruce Springsteen’s most beautiful track ever is a cautionary tale about the destructive power of lies–both spoken and unspoken.
This quiet expression of grief was the last song written for The Rising and the most frequently misunderstood.
This encore staple and “Pink Cadillac” companion song isn’t as deep as Bruce might lead us to believe. But it sure is fun.