By: Jane of the Desert

Jane of the Desert — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 11:30:15 +0000

I was living in Washington, DC, when BTR was released. To call the album long-awaited for DC residents would be a spectacular understatement. The nation’s capital was as early as Boston, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland in being one of the E Street Band’s early breakout cities. We knew a great album was coming and people started barraging the record stores (remember those?) for it MONTHS before it was actually released. I remember going to a store in Foggy Bottom in March of 1975, just to check … just in case (hope, hope, hope). I was met with a sign taped to the glass of the entrance. The sign said, “NO, NO, NO. It’s not here yet!!! When it gets here, we’ll put it in the window.” No need to be specific about what “it” was. To think it was more than FIVE MONTHS before “it” finally arrived shows you what amazing hype that album had. We fans knew something important was being recorded and even though we had heard many of the songs already in live shows, Born to Run as Bruce’s concept album was worth waiting for. It makes me laugh to think Columbia was always trying to get Bruce to de-New-Jerseyfy his music so it would “appeal to a broader audience.” I can’t imagine anything more “New Jersey” than Born to Run. People who have never spent time at the Jersey Shore, or understand its relationship to the nearby but far away Manhattan, have to be missing a lot of the imagery and pathos of those evocative lyrics.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 May 2016 17:21:25 +0000

Wow, That’s good.

By: Tommi Vance

Tommi Vance — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 18:58:16 +0000

Bruce will always be the Boss, love his music, so sorry he lost Clarence ,hope the Boss lives on forever in Rock-N-Roll !!!!

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