Bruce Springsteen is like fine wine, he just gets better and better with age. It's true, the guy amazes me on a daily basis now. He's someone that I had no appreciation for early in his career, maybe it was the constant wearing of Born in the USA in my head that left a bad taste on my pallet, who knows. But now he is one of my heros.
I wasn't even paying attention to Bruce Springsteen, or his music, it was the farthest thing from my mind. Until one night I'm sitting around watching the boob-toob, cruising all the channels. I came upon a channel that had Tom Hanks (another guy I like alot) introducing Bruce Springsteen. Out walks this guy looking a little rugged, somewhat like a street performer. He steps up to the microphone, just him, alone. He performs "Devils and Dust", off the album "Devils and Dust", which is clearly a song for the brave troops who are fighting in Cowboy Bush's war.
The performance is amazing, heart felt and about as tight as you can get. I can do the performance no justice by just talking about, I've attached the performance below for you to enjoy yourself.
His new, album "Magic" is great in my opinion and worth mentioning. I think the songs that stick with me the most are Devils Arcade, Long Walk Home, Magic and You'll Be Coming Down. Devils Arcade being my favorite, Magic being my second (the fiddles and use of instruments and backing vocals is amazing on Magic). You'll Be Coming Down sounds like somehing Paul Westerburg would have wrote with him, it has a great pop feel to it. I not sure where ol Bruce has got this breathe of fresh life, but it sounds great and I wish I could get ahold of some of it!
The harmonica part at around 2:40 is what got me the most in the below video, along with the lyrics its powerful. Who knows, maybe someone will be bored with it... I really appreciated it.
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