This early composition by 18-year-old Bruce Springsteen reveals a growing awareness and concern for societal ills.
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Long before “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” nineteen-year-old Bruce Springsteen adapted another great work of literature into song.
Abandoned almost as soon as Bruce began it, “In Kansas” provides a glimpse of what might have developed into an early epic.
Never recorded or performed, Bruce’s notebook lyrics for “New York Morning Love” reveal a budding 18-year-old songwriter grappling with some very adult themes.
“The Price You Pay” is considered to be one of Bruce’s most enigmatic songs, but it’s only the backstory that’s mysterious–the song reveals itself when we pay close attention.
Bruce grappled with depression through song as early as 1968, as this unreleased entry from his notebook demonstrates.
From way back in Bruce’s short-lived college days comes this earliest of his published writing.
Nineteen-year-old Bruce Springsteen grappled with the horrors of the Vietnam War in one of his earliest compositions.
In 2010, an on-line auction site featured a page of untitled, original early Springsteen lyrics. Despite the deceptively provocative name they assigned, “Vaginal Vandals” is a fascinating seed of what might have developed into an early tale of youthful rebellion.
Never recorded, released, or even performed, “All I Wanna Know” is a fascinating sneak peek at the early, evolving songwriting craft of Bruce Springsteen.