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Where that dealt with lives that were the focus of attention – the blue-collar dispossessed – this paid attention to the migrants who had slipped off the edges of society.īruce Springsteen in concert in Toronto, January 20, 1981. Tom Joad was, if anything, even bleaker than Nebraska. Springsteen found his way back after Lucky Town/Human Touch by stripping back and turning his gaze towards the dispossessed. That said, the Irish folk elements throughout sit oddly. Wrecking Ball was a furious record: We Take Care of Our Own was a statement that America had very much failed to live up to the title’s statement Death to My Hometown was a very different version of home to My Hometown. Springsteen’s joyous live shows tend to overshadow the fact that almost all the music he has made this century has been sombre. Sadly, the most startling moment on Working on a Dream is Outlaw Pete, a Western fantasy that appeared to have been cribbed, implausibly, from I Was Made For Lovin’ You by Kiss. Working on a Dream (2009)Īnd now into the run of albums for the 2000s that, without ever touching the heights of the glory days, regularly offered startling moments.
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