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Bruce Springsteen’s “Highway Patrolman”: A Ballad as Prayer

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The Early Years I played Bruce Springsteenā€™s album Nebraska over and over when I was in high school. Itā€™s a dark, meditative album full of rage and sadness, which soothed me. I was sixteen, and had just moved to a … Continue reading →

Badlands and bad seeds

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In a previous post on Bruce Springsteenā€™s ā€œNebraskaā€ (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 →