{"id":10783,"date":"2019-07-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=10783"},"modified":"2023-01-01T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T18:55:05","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-robert-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/14\/roll-of-the-dice-robert-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: Robert Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s see: Bruce has written a song about Jesse James<\/a>, recorded a second one handed down from the Old West era<\/a>, and namechecked him in still another unreleased demo.<\/p>\n

I think we can safely see that Bruce has a fascination with the man–so much so that he even wrote a song about the man who killed him.<\/p>\n

In the early spring of 1981, during what would become known as the Nebraska sessions, Bruce sat down with his guitar and a tape recorder in his home studio in Colts Neck, and he recorded the opening lines of what promised to be a great Western ballad.<\/p>\n