One moment in time album
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I hear you grappling a lot with spirituality on this record, especially in a song like “The Power of Prayer.”īetween your book, the Broadway show, and now the “Letter to You” film and some of the reflections on this album, I get the sense that you’re starting to think about your legacy. The thing about those songs, every line is insane! And somehow they end up making sense about something. It’s fun to go back and see how wild my lyric writing was, and how uninhibited it was at a certain moment, and to be able to take that and bring it into the present with the band, and sing it in my voice right now, was a bit of a joy ride. So I happened to come into contact with that music, and there were a couple of others that I thought might be fun for the band to play. I had done a demo for him in 1972 when I was 22, and these songs were on it, and they were songs I’d written previous to my first record. I had been working on a box set of music from our vault, so I came across a bunch of those songs that I had recorded for John Hammond, the previous vice president of Columbia Records who discovered me and got me signed. It was not a painful process, but it was a lengthy process.Īside from the new material, there are three songs on this album that you wrote in the early 1970s. Oh, no, recording used to be hell on earth. Recording wasn’t always that easy for you. So we cut about a song every three hours, we did two a day, and we were done in four days. My blueprint for what I was doing was basically the two songs that we’d done in the past that were cut completely live, “Darkness on the Edge of Town” and “Born in the U.S.A.,” which is like two takes. I didn’t want to demo or have preconceptions of the music, so I didn’t touch the songs until I taught them to the band. I knew I wanted to make a record with the band, and I knew I wanted it to be the pure instrumentation of the band: two keyboards, the guitars, the bass, drums and saxophone, and I didn’t want anything else.
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You got the band back together for “Letter to You.” At what point did you realize it needed to be an E Street Band record? It’s a song that’s not necessarily what it appears to be. That was just a part of that piece of music. How something can be prideful and at the same time call to account the nation that you’re writing about. But to understand that piece of music you need to do what adults are capable of doing, which is to hold two contradictory ideas of one thing in your mind at one time. The pride that people feel as a part of that music is true. I still believe it’s one of my best songs, and when we play it, it just has a cumulative power that remains with it. And yet still, on occasion, I’m going to hear something like that. I mean, I do believe that as much as it is the writer’s job to write well, it is the listener’s job to listen well. That is my lot in life and I have learned to live with it with a smile. How did that make you feel? Decades after Reagan, people still seem to be misunderstanding that song. I take it you saw the people playing “Born in the U.S.A.” outside Walter Reed when President Trump was there earlier this month. You’re putting out a record that you can’t yet tour. Like everyone else, this year hasn’t exactly gone how you’d expected. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. I was always in the record store, looking for the next thing.” “I’ve been really enjoying sort of being deeply back into music,” Springsteen said, “almost like I was when I was a kid. Having the time to listen is, at least, one upside of being stuck in place.
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(He said he hasn’t yet listened to Taylor Swift’s “Folklore,” but “all I’ve heard is good things about it.”)
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Ondara, Mondo Cozmo, H.E.R., Orville Peck, Larkin Poe and Bon Iver, to name a few. He ran to get his laptop to giddily read off a list of artists whose music has been exciting him recently: J.S. The closest Springsteen has come to picking up a quarantine hobby (“I’m not a big hobby guy”) has been hosting a Sirius XM radio show, “From My Home to Yours,” a project he’s thrown himself into with palpable gusto. And it’s also a direct conversation between me and my fans, at a level that I think they’ve come to expect over the years.” It’s about being in a rock band, over the course of time. “The record is the first record that I’ve made where the subject is the music itself,” he said.