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Promised followup: Just another Friday AND Sunday (SPRINGSTEEN on Sunday, that is, @ 107.1 The Boss)
August 31, 2026 First up, as promised in last Saturday's initial report, please click on this link (and/or his great photo below) to read our friend/contributing photographer/writer Mark Krajnak's complete Asbury Park Vibes report and photo-gallery about Bruce Springsteen's guest appearance with Bleachers at their Stone Pony Summer Summer Stage show last Friday, August 28. photo by Mark Krajnak for Asbury Park Vibes - used w/ permission Tom Cunningham with The Boss @ The Boss

Letters To You
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An American Duology: this year's major anniversaries of "American Skin (41 Shots)" & "American Land"
August 30, 2026 [A NOTE FROM GREG DREW AND SHAWN POOLE: This long-planned anniversary feature of ours wouldn't be anywhere near as special as it now is, if our friends from Living Colour, Corey Glover and Will Calhoun, and our friend from Appleseed Recordings, Jim Musselman, hadn't agreed to sit down with us recently for extensive conversations about this great music. To these three gentlemen, whose recorded interviews are linked below, we owe very special thanks indeed, righ

Shawn Poole with Greg Drew
Aug 306 min read


Just another Friday on the Jersey Shore...
August 29, 2026 ...as per social-media posts from our friend/contributing photographer/writer Mark Krajnak and our friends at The Bruce Springsteen Center For American Music: We're looking forward to seeing and sharing more of Mister Krajnak's Asbury Park Vibes photos and writings about last night, as soon as we can. Stay tuned...

Letters To You
Aug 291 min read


"...To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart" - remembering Bill Ayres, another great one
Bill Ayres and Dave Marsh at the SiriusXM studios during Hungerthon 2019 August 25, 2026 So shortly after the passing of Dave Marsh, we've lost another great man, who also happened to be one of Dave's close friends, and a key ally in their shared efforts to end hunger. Bill Ayres, the co-founder, former Executive Director and Ambassador of WhyHunger, died last Saturday at the age of 85. In 1975, Ayres co-founded WhyHunger - originally known as World Hunger Year - with another

Letters To You
Aug 255 min read


Dave Marsh, 1950-2026
August 15, 2026 We at Letters To You are very saddened to learn that Dave Marsh - the great critic, writer, Springsteen biographer, E Street Radio founder/host, and activist - died last night. Dave's work had a profound, lasting influence on the international community of Springsteen fans, and continues to do so. This very website has been greatly influenced and inspired by him. Later on, we'll have much more to share about Dave Marsh and his enduring impact and importance. F

Letters To You
Aug 151 min read


Art vs. apartheid: Van Zandt to talk "Sun City" at the Springsteen Center (tix go on sale tomorrow)
August 12, 2026 The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University will host a special screening of the 1985 documentary The Making of Sun City (expanded from the version initially aired on MTV,) followed by a conversation with the songwriter of the anti-apartheid anthem "Sun City" and the founder of Artists United Against Apartheid: musician, activist, and TeachRock founder Stevie Van Zandt, of course. Van Zandt will be in conversation with the Springstee

Letters To You
Aug 122 min read


A "Prove It All Night" for one night only... Nugs' "First Friday" series resumes w/ BUFFALO, NY 2005
August 7, 2026 The nugs.net "First Friday" Live Archives series resumes today with another great show from Bruce Springsteen's 2005 Devils & Dust Solo/Acoustic Tour: Buffalo, NY 2005, performed and recorded professionally on July 18, 2005. The show marked itself as something special from the very beginning, when Springsteen opened with a one-night-only acoustic-guitar/harmonica-backed solo version of "Prove It All Night." As archivist Erik Flannigan writes in his liner-notes

Letters To You
Aug 71 min read
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