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Letter to You
comes quickly on the heels of
Western Stars
, a long-gestating 2019 immersion into the lush, progressive country vistas of the early 1970s, but in a sense, it's a true sequel to
Bruce Springsteen
's 2016 memoir Born to Run and its 2017 stage companion
Springsteen on Broadway
. It's an album where
Springsteen
reckons with the weight of the past, how its ghosts are still readily apparent in the present, an album where the veteran singer/songwriter is keenly aware he has more road in his rearview mirror than he does on the highway ahead of him.
does find himself drawn to the good old days, reviving three unrecorded songs from the days separating the split of his first band
the Castiles
and his contract with
CBS
, adding them to a clutch of new songs where
Bruce
ponders what it means to be the "Last Man Standing," surrounded by the spirits of old friends who may no longer be alive but are still a palpable psychic presence. To help him navigate the distance separating then and now,
brings
the E Street Band
into the studio for the first time since 2009's
Working on a Dream
, but the difference with
is that the group cut the album live in the studio. It may seem like a subtle distinction, but having
offer empathic, effortless support lends a dose of magic to the proceedings, offering unspoken connections between those wordy, windy early works, the cascading thunder of
Darkness on the Edge of Town
, and the naked sentiment of the aging songwriter.
often does sound like vintage
E Street Band
but there are notable differences in terms of attack: They're playing not out of a sense of hunger, but communion. This shared warmth carries
through the moments where the younger
is perhaps a bit too precious and the older
is a bit too clear, turning a record that's a meditation on mortality into a celebration of what it means to be alive in the moment. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
comes quickly on the heels of
Western Stars
, a long-gestating 2019 immersion into the lush, progressive country vistas of the early 1970s, but in a sense, it's a true sequel to
Bruce Springsteen
's 2016 memoir Born to Run and its 2017 stage companion
Springsteen on Broadway
. It's an album where
Springsteen
reckons with the weight of the past, how its ghosts are still readily apparent in the present, an album where the veteran singer/songwriter is keenly aware he has more road in his rearview mirror than he does on the highway ahead of him.
does find himself drawn to the good old days, reviving three unrecorded songs from the days separating the split of his first band
the Castiles
and his contract with
CBS
, adding them to a clutch of new songs where
Bruce
ponders what it means to be the "Last Man Standing," surrounded by the spirits of old friends who may no longer be alive but are still a palpable psychic presence. To help him navigate the distance separating then and now,
brings
the E Street Band
into the studio for the first time since 2009's
Working on a Dream
, but the difference with
is that the group cut the album live in the studio. It may seem like a subtle distinction, but having
offer empathic, effortless support lends a dose of magic to the proceedings, offering unspoken connections between those wordy, windy early works, the cascading thunder of
Darkness on the Edge of Town
, and the naked sentiment of the aging songwriter.
often does sound like vintage
E Street Band
but there are notable differences in terms of attack: They're playing not out of a sense of hunger, but communion. This shared warmth carries
through the moments where the younger
is perhaps a bit too precious and the older
is a bit too clear, turning a record that's a meditation on mortality into a celebration of what it means to be alive in the moment. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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