{"id":32111,"date":"2017-01-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=32111"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:15:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:15:46","slug":"matr-rotd-gary-u-s-bonds-and-bruce-springsteen-loves-on-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/10\/matr-rotd-gary-u-s-bonds-and-bruce-springsteen-loves-on-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Love’s on the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the Line <\/em>is the great Springsteen pop album that never was.<\/p>\n

Both Gary U.S. Bonds’ 1982 album and its immediate predecessor Dedication<\/em> were produced by Bruce and Steven Van Zandt, and both albums are full of glorious, original Springsteen River-era pop songs.<\/p>\n

Both albums spawned Springsteen-penned hit singles (“This Little Girl” from\u00a0Dedication\u00a0<\/em>and “Out of Work” from\u00a0On the Line<\/em>), but they were only the tip of the iceberg of ridiculously great compositions given away by Bruce to Bonds.<\/p>\n

In fact,\u00a0On the Line<\/em> contains a whopping\u00a0seven<\/em> original Springsteen songs, many of which feature Bruce and the E Street Band performing on the studio tracks.\u00a0 Six of the seven are hand-clappingly poppy, infectiously danceable party songs, but one of them stops listeners dead in their tracks: the devastating, heart-breaking “Love’s on the Line.”<\/p>\n