Bruce ends The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle with another image-drenched epic. The song features the piano of David Sancious in full bloom accompanying Billy and Jackie down the dark and blue streets of a Manhattan night. There’s a story of redemption that might happen…and then it might not. The combination of the story and the music puts my ear parts in a cinematic frame of mind.
Part of me thinks that the sequence should have been flipped, with Rosalita closing out the record on a more rockin’ note. Years of listen have pushed that notion out of my head. Now the song feels almost like a foreshadowing of what’s to come, with stories managing to be more compact and yet so full of vision.
Next up: Thunder Road
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