He’s playing us the song backstage on his acoustic guitar, just like the old days. It’s not like he’s going home in between and writing it and demo’ing it and showing it to the band later. They tend to take on a very comfortable arrangement because they’re being written for the live band and with the live band. It’s one of those road songs written for the band. Lauren Onkey (The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum), Jackson Browne (singer-songwriter, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer), Mikal Gilmore (Contributing editor, Rolling Stone), Christopher Phillips (Editor and publisher, Backstreets magazine), Peter Ames Carlin (Journalist, Springsteen biographer), Brian Hiatt, (Senior writer, Rolling Stone), Rob Sheffield (Contributing editor, Rolling Stone), Bethany Cosentino (Founding member, Best Coast), Alan Light (Journalist and author, The Holy or the Broken), Steven Van Zandt (Actor, guitarist, E Street Band member), Bill Flanagan (Executive vice president, MTV Networks), Edward Norton (Actor-director, two-time Oscar nominee), Warren Zanes (Founding member, the Del Fuegos), David Fricke (Senior writer, Rolling Stone), Tom Morello (Solo artist, Rage Against the Machine guitarist)īruce wrote this song for our final shows at Giants Stadium in 2009 before they tore it down. The panel: Win Butler (Arcade Fire), Andy Greene (Associate editor, Rolling Stone), Dr. Selected with the help of a panel of writers and artists, here are our picks for Springsteen’s 100 greatest songs. Such sustained greatness makes choosing highlights a deeply subjective job, but we’ve given it our best shot. In the 41 years since the release of his debut, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., Bruce Springsteen has built up a catalog of songs nearly unrivaled in the history of rock, from the streetwise drama of his early work, through to the stadium-shaking heights of Born in the U.S.A., and continuing on to his recent socially and politically impassioned efforts like the new High Hopes.
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