On this date: Bruce releases his Devils & Dust album, debuts “Hello Sunshine,” and more.
Tag: Western Stars
The Bruce Springsteen Band debuted on this date in 1971. Listen to their first performance inside, plus more highlights from this date in history.
Happy Birthday, Western Stars, released on this day in 2019. Plus: watch and listen to Bruce play with Phish, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and Gary U.S. Bonds. More highlights inside.
Bruce Springsteen’s eleventh studio album is one of his best-sounding and most thematically cohesive. It wears its influences on its sleeves, and we’ll explore them inside.
Bruce Springsteen’s most beautiful track ever is a cautionary tale about the destructive power of lies–both spoken and unspoken.
The shortest song on Western Stars is also the most poignant, a two-minute character study in loss and regret.
The second track on Western Stars is another song with an itinerant hero, one whose freedom came at a price.
Introducing guest-blogger Katy Crane in her first of hopefully many appearances. Today she offers a counter-take to my interpretation of “Western Stars.”
Bruce couldn’t have chose a more perfect song to end his Western Stars film with than the 1975 classic by a New York songwriter yearning to make it big as a western country star.
Western Stars is a travelogue, and it opens with a song that’s all about the ride.