Is this the darkest song in Bruce’s catalog? (Spoiler alert: yes.)
Tag: The Promise
“Wrong Side of the Street” is a lyrical lightweight, but it features a great E Street Band backing track that went unreleased for more than 30 years after it was recorded.
“Save My Love” is modern-day nostalgia: a 2010 recording (based on a 1976 rehearsal) about the power of radio in a pre-streaming world. Backstory, insights, and remarkable video inside.
The curious tale of how an ad-libbed in-joke turned a throwaway outtake into a concert crowd-pleaser.
“Talk to Me” took a strange and winding path from the studio to vinyl to the E Street stage, but it’s guaranteed to make us laugh anytime Bruce pulls it out. But let’s not think too hard about the lyrics.
A tale of two one-way streets: one bitter, one sad, both sweet.
“The Brokenhearted” is Roy Orbison meets The Drifters, and 1977 Bruce meets 2010 Bruce. The style mash-up works, the vocal graft not so much.
This early ancestor of “Candy’s Room” (and “Drive All Night”) is just as strong as its descendant, featuring a long, sublime solo by Danny Federici. Let’s break it down inside.