Bruce Springsteen’s New Jersey songs, including ‘Sandy,’ ‘Rosalita,’ others: Gimme Five
“Rosalita” was the song that just had to be played before all important events.
Articles by: Mark Saleski
Gimme Five: Bruce Springsteen’s spiritual songs, including ‘My City of Ruins,’ ‘The Promised Land,’ ‘We Are Alive,’ others
On the search for salvation, both in this world and the next.
Bruce Springsteen road songs, including ‘Thunder Road,’ ‘Racing in the Street,’ ‘Born to Run,’ others: Gimme Five
He uses these metaphors as a foundation for deeply revealing character studies.
WTF?! Wednesdays: John Zorn, “Chronology” from Spy vs. Spy (1989)
I wonder what Ornette thinks of this stuff?
Sparks Fly On E Street: Bruce Springsteen, “All I’m Thinkin’ About” (2005)
It’s not often that I think of Bruce Springsteen songs in the same context as the Viet Nam era and the American culture of that time, but “All I’m Thinkin’ About” has always reminded me of Canned Heat’s “Heading Up The Country.” You May Also Like: Bruce Springsteen – ‘TheRead More
(Cross the) Heartland: Pat Metheny, “Offramp” (1981)
Some think Metheny is joking around, that he couldn’t possibly like “all of this noise.”
Jack White – Lazaretto (2014)
White’s “old, yet new” vibe again has him brilliantly mixing seemingly unrelated styles.
The Friday Morning Listen: Nat Baldwin – In The Hollows (2014)
Time for the Thing In The Spring, four days of music, readings, art, and general hijinx on the street.
WTF?! Wednesdays: Diamanda Galas – Plague Mass (1991)
A powerful, nearly unhinged vocal recalls the first wave of AIDS-related deaths.
Bronwynne Brent – Stardust (2014)
Here’s a voice so entrancing that it delays my processing of the delivered lyrics.
