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The Springsteen Archives is celebrating BORN TO RUN @50, and you're invited to the birthday party!
photo by Eric Meola - used with permission July 10, 2025 The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music has announced the...


UPDATE - This Wednesday's BABY IT'S YOU screening will be presented in its fully restored 4K format!
July 7, 2025 This just in... We are EXTREMELY pleased and excited to announce that permission has been granted for this Wednesday's...


For Independence Day 2025...The Long Walk Home
image from the official "Long Walk Home" music-video July 4, 2025 Say goodbye...and hello; it's Independence Day 2025 here in the U.S.A....


Always gotta hand it to The Professor... Happy Birthday, Roy Bittan!
backstage in Manchester, England - May 14, 2025 - photo by Rob DeMartin - used w/ permission July 2, 2025 Happy 76th Birthday, and best...


The Ghost of James Baldwin
James Baldwin in 1962 - photo by Carl Mydans/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock - used with permission June 29, 2025 As LGBTQ Pride...


It no longer just "stays in NJ" - TRACKS II is here at last!
June 27, 2025 Happy Tracks II: The Lost Albums Release Day! Despite feeling it important and necessary to address that elephant in the...


The overpriced physical-media elephant in the room...
June 26, 2025 If you're a Springsteen fan visiting or returning to this website, you've probably read at least some of the initial...


Happy Birthday, Nils Lofgren: great guitarist, great singer, and "the Minister of Heart and Spirit"
"The Godfather of the Guitar" in action onstage @ Liverpool on June 4, 2025 - photo by  René van Diemen June 21, 2025 "On the guitar......


Speakin' of Bruce on the big screen...
June 19, 2025 Letters To You contributor and filmmaker Joe Amodei recently launched a monthly "Movie Club" screening/discussion series...


"Let me tell you a little story..." - The first trailer for the first Springsteen biopic is here...
June 18, 2025 "Let me tell you a little story," says Jeremy Strong doing an excellent Jon Landau impersonation in the just-released...


Why is "Father's Day" an "orphan" of TRACKS II?
Douglas Springsteen, circa 1960, as seen in the 2021 book RENEGADES: BORN IN THE USA, co-written by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen...


When all our summers have come to an end - E Street remembers and salutes Sly Stone and Brian Wilson
June 13, 2025 Additionally, in May of 2024, we at Letters To You deeply explored Brian Wilson's huge influence on Bruce Springsteen's...


Listen now to "Sunday Love," the opening track from TRACKS II's "lost" album TWILIGHT HOURS
June 12, 2025 Below you can listen to "Sunday Love," the opening track from the "lost" Bruce Springsteen album Twilight Hours , which...


Never too old to grow young again: Paulina Vanderbilt on Liverpool Night 2
photo by René van Diemen  - used with permission June 10, 2025 On February 9, 1964, fifteen-year-old Bruce Springsteen witnessed The...


"...anything, my friend, if it makes you feel alright..." - Macca returns to E Street
photo by René van Diemen  - used with permission June 8, 2025 The last time that Paul McCartney joined Bruce Springsteen & the E Street...


"...where, for us, it all began" - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band finally play Liverpool
photo by René van Diemen  - used with permission June 7, 2025 London-based journalist and Letters To You contributor Herpreet Grewal ...


Freehold to Liverpool
photo from Liverpool Night 1 (June 4, 2025) by  René van Diemen June 5, 2025 Last night Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band performed...


The latest TRACKS II preview-track is here: "Adelita," from the "lost album" INYO
May 29, 2025 "Adelita," from the "lost" Bruce Springsteen album Inyo , is the fifth preview-track from Tracks II: The Lost Albums , now...


Carl "Tinker" West, 1935-2025
May 26, 2025 UPDATES (May 27, 2025:) Click here to read "Carl 'Tinker' West, East Coast surfing pioneer and early Springsteen manager,...


Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem... Well, that depends now, doesn't it?
May 26, 2025 Friends and readers, as today here in the U.S. we are observing Memorial Day, a holiday which emerged from the final years...


Drawing the line, with lives on it... Paulina Vanderbilt on The LOHAD Tour's opening night
photo by René van Diemen  - used with permission May 17, 2025 I made a sign for Wednesday night’s show in Manchester and asked my child...


Rise up... The "Land of Hope and Dreams" Tour has begun.
photo by René van Diemen - used with permission May 15, 2025 "Our band was built well, over many years, for difficult times. When people...


Our next taste of TRACKS II: "Repo Man" from the "lost album" SOMEWHERE NORTH OF NASHVILLE
May 14, 2025 Dropping today as Tracks II: The Lost Albums ' fourth preview track: "Repo Man," from the "lost album" Somewhere North of...


"Don't mess with my mom, Dave; she knows this stuff..." - Greg Drew shares memories for Mother's Day
May 11, 2025 Regular readers of Letters To You know that I've been fortunate enough to enjoy a long personal and professional...


Stewart Francke, 1958-2025 - singer/songwriter, journalist, author, longtime "protagonist for life"
May 10, 2025 I was very saddened to learn of yesterday's passing of Stewart Francke, who was a fierce friend and inspiration to so many...


This month's Nugs archival-series release: a show from the FIRST "Land of Hope and Dreams" tour
May 9, 2025 As Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band prepare for next week's launch of their 2025 European tour - dubbed just this week...


At long last, the outdoor piano in Belmar, NJ's Pyanoe Plaza is now officially Sancious-ized!
photo by Lisa Iannucci - used w/ permission May 7, 2025 Witnessed by a crowd that nearly filled Pyanoe Plaza, the Borough of Belmar...


Happy Birthday, Sister Soozie Tyrell! May the Fiddle be with you!
official concert photo (Washington, DC - September 7, 2024) by Rob DeMartin - used with permission May 4, 2025 We have no idea whether...


Just released today: "Faithless," the third preview track from TRACKS II: THE LOST ALBUMS
May 1, 2025 Dropping today as the third Tracks II: The Lost Albums preview track: "Faithless," the title track of the "lost" soundtrack...


The Springsteen Archives' 2025 American Music Honors: These machines, songs, and voices kill fascism
photo by John Cavanaugh - used with permission April 30, 2025 For those of us who were in the audience for The Bruce Springsteen Archives...
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