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The themes here are the similar to those that run through his earliest work. Springsteen has a rare gift for tackling despair and hope in the same tune, taking the listener on a roller-coaster ride of emotion. The Rising's subtext may be sad but the songs, for the most part, are not. Cars and bars and houses, the workplace and the streets, serve as stages for Springsteen's musical pictures. Springsteen's songs, evocative and visceral, find longing hearts and searching souls in the places we all inhabit. The Rising ensnares pain and suffering, longing and loneliness, resilience and recovery. His emotional depth, always generous even when writing about girls and cars and Saturday nights, is at its most developed here.
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Now 52, with three children and married to his very own Jersey girl, E Street backup singer Patti Scialfa, Springsteen's maturation as a man and a songwriter is evident. Tunnel of Love in 1987, about the disintegration of his first marriage to model/actress Julianne Phillips, and arguably his best record, Springsteen started down a different path, one that has ultimately resulted in these 15 new songs. With each successive collection of songs, Springsteen made his characters more dimensional - isolated lonely hearts searching for meaning. Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., was released. A scrawny 14-year-old when he began playing in bands in his boardwalk hometown of Freehold, N.J., he was just 23 when his debut, Springsteen has been working on his craft a long time, and it shows. 5.Įach of Springsteen's 11 previous studio albums (six recorded with the E Street Band) have offered an ever-widening array of parables and characters. 7 with a lone Canadian stop in Toronto on Dec. An extensive tour opens in East Rutherford, N.J., on Aug. He began writing the album's songs almost immediately after the terrorist attacks on Sept.