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March 21, 2024 EDITOR'S NOTE: Thirty years ago tonight, Bruce Springsteen won his first (and, to date We are honored to present Caroline's essay below: On March 21, 1994, Bruce Springsteen accepted the Academy Other songs have been adopted by the LGBTQ+ community. Music writer, cultural/political critic, and broadcaster Dave Marsh on “Streets of Philadelphia” and 1, 1995, Dave Marsh's 45th birthday,] he thanked Kristen, ‘whose spirit is in this song.’

program is designed to provide a retrospective view of artists who, in addition to their longevity, have And while she cites Dave Marsh’s groundbreaking work, there is not the overreliance on his pair of in-depth biographies from which previous publications have suffered. Bruce has definitely made choices that have challenged and confounded some fans: touring with different But it must be kind of a relief that you don't have to worry about its chart position or something."

something to people, and gives them something to focus on... something simple to chant while they're marching

May 28, 2024 "Born in the U.S.A. changed my life and gave me my largest audience. Nowhere - also asserts that, upon the release of Nebraska in 1982, rock-critics like Greil Marcus and Dave Marsh erroneously overemphasized the contemporary political aspects of the Springsteen album that directly And even Nebraska's songs with distant-memory aspects like "Mansion On The Hill" and "Used Cars" have Fittingly, the book has a very moving - if not downright heartbreaking - ending, set at Springsteen's March

And just in case anyone may need or want it, here's some of the history behind this new website having speaking about (onstage and in interviews, especially once I got to read it all so well synthesized into Dave Marsh's still-essential-and-excellent Springsteen biographies Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story Becoming a regular Backstreets contributor, as well as remaining a regular reader, gave me some of the only our regular Springsteen-related news updates and analyses, but also for deeper, more thoughtful dives

Broadway , or Bruce's autobiography (on which the Broadway show was based, of course,) or either/both of Dave Marsh's biographies, or... It's one thing to get the minutiae wrong, like having Springsteen tell the fictionalized daughter of or giving Springsteen’s sister Virginia the wrong hair-color in childhood-flashback scenes, or even having (Even the song chosen for the closing credits - a live Reunion Tour version of "Atlantic City," mashing

March 22, 2024 How appropriate it was, this past Tuesday night, to witness the onstage return of Bruce later phase of that same pandemic still dogged it, as various band members' illnesses forced several March 2023 dates to be rescheduled. -date appearance on this tour (having been played at only three European shows last summer.) In closing, I can't help but think of what music-writer and Springsteen-biographer Dave Marsh once wrote

course - a bar band, in this case, the stalwart Pat Roddy Band , who were more than up to the task, having it's best to begin addressing the major problem with this panel by quoting this trio of sentences from Dave Marsh's book Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story , which includes the still-authoritative-more-than-forty-five-years-after-its-publication Yet again, I find myself asking myself where Dave Marsh's Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story is Manion told a particularly offbeat personal story of having joined the U.S.

He wouldn't have had a job; he wouldn't have been sitting in his dorm room making a magazine. During the October 19, 2016 broadcast of Live From E Street Nation, co-hosts Jim Rotolo and Dave Marsh "Yeah," said Marsh, "I saw a list [on RollingStone.com] that was not the list I remember from the meeting Marsh then checked his email on-air to confirm, found that the list posted on RollingStone.com was indeed BET and countless others have paved the way for this type of recognition.

image courtesy of Save Tillie January 5, 2026 In this, his final month in office, outgoing New Jersey Phil Murphy - a self-proclaimed Springsteen fan - has a relatively easy-peasy, no-brainer chance to save By all means, this should be one of Murphy's new-year resolutions. image courtesy of Save Tillie image courtesy of Save Tillie Last September, Preservation New Jersey 's Executive Director, Kelly C. Fans are begging N.J. gov to save it." by Rob Jennings for The Star-Ledger "Saving Tillie: The Fight

also had this to say about Ely as he inducted him: “If the world was a fairer place, Joe Ely would have Now, from his early classic band The Flatlanders, with Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, he made You" first appeared,] Love and Freedom , and a dozen top-shelf others that a lot more people should have I would have had a lot more of my work cut out for me." when he had to face the reality of illness and decline that ultimately would cut it short, he didn't have

Today, of course, marks the official release date for both the Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere In time, we at Letters To You will be diving more deeply into analyzing and evaluating both of these After all, we're sure that most - if not all - of our readers already have arranged or will be arranging