{"id":15272,"date":"2020-05-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=15272"},"modified":"2023-01-01T14:19:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T22:19:31","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-dont-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/03\/roll-of-the-dice-dont-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: Don’t Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was one of the very first songs Bruce recorded for\u00a0Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>and it was the last song to be cut.<\/p>\n

At one point it closed the album, at another it kicked off Side Two. Early on, it was the second track on Side One, inheriting and building the out-of-the-gate momentum from “Badlands<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

It should have been a hit, and judging by fan reaction when Bruce played it in concert (he actually wrote it and performed it several times during his 1977 “Lawsuit Tour”) it probably would<\/em> have been a hit had Bruce released it in 1978 instead of 1998.<\/p>\n

But unfortunately, “Don’t Look Back” committed the sin of drawing water from a well Bruce realized he had visited too often, and at the last minute it was dropped from the album.<\/p>\n

But what a track it was. Let’s take a listen. Even better, let’s watch as Bruce and the E Street Band work it out in the studio.<\/p>\n