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Wild innocent e street shuffle vinyl12/31/2023 ![]() The result was a split down the middle, and it was clear that Springsteen flourished more with a fleshed out sound, the two full acoustic numbers “Mary, Queen of Arkansas” and “The Angel” are probably among the most dispassionate releases in Springsteen’s catalogue and out of place among the Technicolor musical lyricism that brought numbers “Blinded By The Light” and “It’s Hard To Be A Saint in the City” to life. Part of the problem lay in the label’s handling of Bruce Springsteen’s talent, they wanted it to be a solo effort, while Springsteen wanted a full band effort. Music talent scout John Hammond had found the young man from Jersey 3 years prior, in the midst of Columbia Record’s desperate search for a “new Bob Dylan” and immediately set about releasing a debut record which would be entitled Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. only to have it fall on deaf ears, despite its critical success. The guitar slinger from Jersey had finally found critical and popular success, yet Springsteen had already touched upon the themes so heralded in Born to Run, and it was The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle that had brought him there. The tales that came out of this recording were legendary, it took two years to make the album, with a good 6 months spent on the title track, complete with 12 guitar overdubs and a change in production and management halfway through. The genius of Born to Run lay in its absolute desperation, it’s all or nothing grandeur that was indeed the result of an artist taking his last shot at stardom, doomed to fade to obscurity if he failed. Many thought that this Jersey boy had come out of nowhere (he had) and that this was a stunning debut (it wasn’t). Born to Run was a triumph of encapsulating the motifs of the American Dream, the hope of the future versus the world weary reality, the desire to make something out of nothing and never look back, audiences took to it immediately and a star was born. On August 25th, 1975, Bruce Springsteen’s musical career changed forever. I saw rock ‘n’ roll’s future-and its name is Bruce Springsteen
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