Cain
“Cain and Abel,” by Titian When I wrote last year about Jesus and the murder ballad, I thought I would finish that week by looking back to other Biblical stories that also provided symbols for music in this genre. I … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Bruce Springsteen
A good man is hard to find (and so is a good woman)
Hell’s Half-Acre, a small badland in Wyoming (Note: This is the third post about Bruce Springsteen’s song “Nebraska.” The first post explored the song’s relationship to the case of spree killers Charlie Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. The second post … Continue reading →
Badlands and bad seeds
In a previous post on Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska” (the song, not the album), we saw how The Boss ripped the song from the headlines, chronicling the murder spree, conviction, and pending execution of the killer Charlie Starkweather and his girlfriend, … Continue reading →
A meanness in this world
In a way, this entire blog serves as an attempt to answer to the question: Why? Why do people commit murder, and why do we write, sing, and listen to songs about those murders? So far, we’ve spilled a lot … Continue reading →
SPRINGSTEEN TO RELEASE DVD/CD OF “THE SESSION BAND” LIVE- IN CONCERT FROM DUBLIN
Bruce Springsteen and Columbia Records announced today that they will release “‘Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band Live in Dublin” on June 5 as a concert DVD and a separate two-CD set release. The two-CD set and DVD will feature … Continue reading →