{"id":12291,"date":"2019-09-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=12291"},"modified":"2023-01-01T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T19:23:45","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-my-lucky-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/02\/roll-of-the-dice-my-lucky-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: My Lucky Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why “My Lucky Day” never became the monster hit it deserves to be.<\/p>\n

I’m not talking about a mainstream pop hit, mind you. Bruce left those days behind a long time ago. But I fully expected “My Lucky Day” to become an instant setlist staple and fan favorite, because it’s not only one of the E Street Band’s best twenty-first century recordings, it’s also the most natural and organic sounding. It sounds like it was written to be played live.<\/p>\n

“My Lucky Day” also sounds like the band was playing it for the first time when they laid it down in the studio, and that’s very much by design. Watch Bruce instruct his team on the exact sound (in a very inexact way) that he’s searching for:<\/p>\n