Fender Friday my friends! We made it through another work week! And we also celebrated Bruce's 77th birthday! So let's end the week with arguably Bruce's most iconic songs. The masterpiece known as Thunder Road. Thunder Road is ultimately a song about taking a chance before the chance disappears. Opening Born to Run in 1975, it introduces many of the ideas that run through the album: youth, escape, loneliness, love, uncertainty, and the belief that somewhere beyond the life you know, something better might still be waiting. The song begins quietly and intimately. Mary is standing on the porch while the character arrives with an invitation. But he isn’t promising her a fairy tale. In fact, that’s part of what makes the song so powerful. These aren’t perfect young people confidently racing toward a guaranteed happy ending. Remember: "I'm no hero that's understood.."They’re vulnerable, getting older, carrying disappointments and wondering whether some of their dreams may already have passed them by. "Don't run back inside, darling You know just what I'm here for So you're scared and you're thinking That maybe we ain't that young anymore" Bruce turns those risks into an argument for trying anyway. The character sees something in Mary that perhaps she no longer sees in herself. He’s essentially telling her that neither of them has to be beautiful, fearless or certain about the future. They simply have to decide whether they’re willing to step off that porch and find out what is still possible. And the escape isn’t really about a car or a highway. It’s about refusing to surrender to your own fears. That’s why the song becomes increasingly more powerful as it goes along. It begins with two people on a porch and gradually opens into highways, towns, ghosts, dreams and possibility. But Thunder Road isn’t automatically optimistic. There’s sadness underneath it. The narrator knows time is moving. He knows dreams don’t automatically come true. He knows there are people who once believed they were going somewhere and never made it out. That awareness is precisely why leaving matters. "We got one last chance to make it real To trade in these wings on some wheels Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks" At its heart, Thunder Road asks one of the defining Springsteen questions: Do we allow our disappointments to determine what happens next—or do we take one more shot at the life we once imagined? Fifty-plus years later, that’s probably why Thunder Road still means so much to us. When you’re young, it can sound like a song about getting out of town. As you get older, it can become something much bigger—a reminder that hope isn’t believing everything will work out. Sometimes hope is simply having the courage to go while the road is still open. The music tells the story too The construction of “Thunder Road” is brilliant because the music matches the emotional journey. Opening Harmonica. Accompanied Piano. Bruce’s voice. The Screen Door Slams.. Mary's dress...(let's leave it at that peeps 😜) It feels intimate—almost as though we’re standing close enough to overhear the conversation on Mary’s porch. But gradually the song grows. More instruments arrive. The possibilities become larger. The emotional stakes increase. And eventually the song that began with one woman standing behind a screen door becomes huge. That’s exactly what is happening. Mary’s world is getting bigger. By the end, we’re no longer standing on the porch. We’re already imagining the highway. “It’s a town full of losers…” The ending is what transforms Thunder Road from a beautiful song into something incredible. Bruce could have ended it romantically. Instead, he gives us one of the most famous propositions in his entire catalog: they’re surrounded by people whose dreams didn’t work out—and they’re leaving to try to win. But “winning” doesn’t necessarily mean fame, money or success. @springsteen #springsteen

From the Vault: @ThomZimny Presents Rare and Unseen Film Tuesday September 29th 7:30pm Join us at the @SpringsteenCAM for a night from the vault with Emmy and GRAMMY award winning filmmaker, Thom Zimny, sharing rare footage from his 25 years working with @springsteen and the E Street Band. Admission is $40. Get your tickets here: backstage.springsteencenter.…

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Seventy-seven years. From a little boy growing up in Freehold, to a teenager who picked up a guitar, made it talk to all of us in such a profound way, and found the thing that would change his life, to a young man chasing an impossible dream up and down the Jersey Shore. From tiny clubs to the world’s biggest stadiums. From Growin’ Up to Born to Run. From The Promised Land to Glory Days. From Kingdom of Days to Last Man Standing and Letter to You. The face has changed. The years have passed. Friends have been gained and some painfully lost. There have been triumphs, heartbreaks, beginnings, endings, reunions and goodbyes. But through every era, one thing has remained. The music. And somehow, as #springsteen grew older, those songs grew older right alongside us. Songs we first heard as kids suddenly meant something completely different when we became adults. Songs about parents became songs about our parents. Songs about children became songs about our children. Songs about friendship, love, loss, mortality and hope began hitting places in us we couldn’t possibly have understood when we first heard them. Maybe that’s one of Bruce's greatest gifts. He didn’t just provide the soundtrack to our youth. He gave us a soundtrack for growing older, too. And now, at 77, he’s still here. Still creating. Still performing. Still believing in the power of music to bring people together. And we’re still fortunate enough to be along for the ride. For more than five decades, your songs have somehow found us exactly where we are. They’ve been there for the first loves and the broken hearts. The weddings and the funerals. The celebrations and the struggles. The long drives with nowhere in particular to go and the nights when we needed the music turned up just a little louder. You wrote about the people who work hard, dream big, fall down, get back up, lose faith and somehow find it again. You taught us about hope and redemption, friendship and loyalty, love and loss, second chances and the promise that somewhere down the road there just might be something better waiting for us. But speaking for the Spring-Nuts community, what you help us create through your music, became about something even bigger than the songs. It became about each other. Eleven years ago, this community began because of a shared love for your music. What none of us could have imagined was where that music would eventually take us. Strangers became friends. Friends became family. People traveled thousands of miles together. We stood beside one another at shows, celebrated marriages and births, mourned losses, helped people through some incredibly difficult times, and tried our best to live by one of the simplest and most important lessons we found in your music: To take care of our own. And somehow, through all of it, your music was always there. That may ultimately be one of the greatest gifts an artist can give. Not simply songs that people listen to, but songs that connect people to one another. There are people in this community who would never have met if you hadn't picked up a guitar and started telling stories all those years ago. Friendships, relationships, memories and experiences exist today because somewhere along the way, your music brought our paths together. At 77, you continue to remind us that rock and roll isn't measured by a number on a birth certificate. It's measured by the passion you bring to the stage, the truth you put into a song, and the connection that happens when thousands of people become one for a few unforgettable hours. So today, from this crazy family we call the Spring-Nuts, we simply say: Thank you, @springsteen . Thank you for the words. Thank you for the music. Thank you for the concerts, the memories, the friendships and the miles. Thank you for reminding us that dreams will not be thwarted and faith will be rewarded. And through your music, may we all continue to find some reason to believe.

Human Touch is one of Bruce Springsteen’s most introspective songs about love, loneliness, vulnerability, and our basic need for genuine human connection. The song comes from the perspective of someone who has stripped away the romantic illusions. He isn’t promising a perfect relationship, eternal happiness, or some fairy-tale version of love. In fact, he openly acknowledges how difficult life and relationships can be. What he can offer is something simpler and perhaps more meaningful: honesty, companionship, physical and emotional closeness—a human touch. Hey come on now! Who doesn't want that? There’s a certain weariness in the song. The character experienced disappointment and understands that people carry scars, defenses, and baggage. But instead of becoming completely cynical, he recognizes that those imperfections make connection even more necessary. We may not be able to save one another or fix everything that’s broken, but we can still reach for one another. In my opinion, thats what makes Human Touch particularly powerful. Beneath the romantic surface, it speaks to something universal: no matter how independent or hardened we convince ourselves we are, most of us still need to feel understood, wanted, comforted, and connected to another person. We all need that Human Touch. And there’s an interesting maturity to the message compared with some of Bruce’s earlier romantic songs. This isn’t the youthful promise of many of Bruce's songs where the characters are escaping together and conquering the world. It’s closer to saying: Life is complicated. I’m complicated. You’re complicated. There are no guarantees—but maybe we don’t need guarantees. Maybe sometimes all we simply need each other. In that sense, Human Touch is ultimately a song about allowing yourself to remain vulnerable in a world that gives you plenty of reasons not to be. A world without pity. The character isn’t asking for perfection. He’s asking for something real. Human Touch. And sometimes, Bruce seems to be saying, something real is exactly enough. Spring-Nuts… in a world without pity, do you really think what Bruce is asking for is too much? Especially in today’s world, maybe what we’re all searching for isn’t all that complicated. Someone who will listen. Someone who will understand. Someone who will simply be there. A little compassion. A little connection. A reminder that beneath all the noise, the anger and the division, we’re still human. Sometimes, we all just need someone to talk to… And a little of that Human Touch. ❤️

TeachRock Teachers Hall of Fame presented by Hard Rock An Inaugural Celebration Honoring Teachers, hosted by Pete Davidson and featuring Tom Morello, celebrating @StevieVanZandt , with a full musical performance by Kool & the Gang. @TeachRock @MVZaGoGo Get your tickets here! teachrock.org/event/thof?fbc…

For those who missed it, or for the ones who want to watch it again, The Spring-Nuts Cafe Podcast with @jakeclemons is now up on our YouTube channel! Enjoy ! piped.video/RONMryGFwpc?is=ePRU…

Philadelphia Freedom Cut Part 2 next week September 23 — @springsteen 77th birthday!

This one's dedicated to you guys! The Spring-Nut Mantra! And in my opinion one of Bruce's most important songs ever. It's the pivotal moment at our Serenade events, it speaks to all of us in so many different ways. I remember hearing it the first time live during the reunion tour and it hit me right in the soul and has stayed with me ever since. Land of Hope and Dreams” is one of Bruce's most powerful statements about hope, redemption, inclusion, faith, and the belief that nobody should be left behind. The song uses the image of a train moving toward a better place—a “land of hope and dreams.” But unlike the traditional gospel train, where salvation is often reserved for the righteous, Bruce’s train takes everybody. Saints and sinners, winners and losers, the brokenhearted, lost souls, fools and kings—all are welcome aboard. In the beginning, the journey feels deeply personal. Two people are leaving something behind, carrying only what they need and trusting one another for whatever lies ahead. There are no guarantees. They don’t really know where the train is taking them. What matters is that they are moving forward together, leaving their sorrow and darkness behind in the belief that tomorrow can be better. Then the song expands from the personal to the public. The train becomes a metaphor for community and shared humanity. (Everything I believe wholeheartedly this group is about.) Bruce deliberately removes the distinctions we normally make between the worthy and unworthy. Your past, your failures, your status, your mistakes—none of them disqualify you from getting aboard. It is essentially Bruce’s vision of redemption: there is room for everyone. That is what gives the declarations “Dreams will not be thwarted” and “Faith will be rewarded” so much power. They aren’t promises that life will be easy. They are statements of defiance against despair—the idea that even after loss, disappointment and darkness, we keep believing, keep moving and keep carrying one another forward. Musically and spiritually, the song draws upon the gospel tradition of “This Train” and Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions’ “People Get Ready.” To me the message has always been clear in this song. Salvation isn’t something we reach individually; we get there together. And that may be the heart of “Land of Hope and Dreams”: the destination matters, but who we bring with us matters even more. It is a song about refusing to surrender to our failures or shortcomings. About believing there is still light beyond the darkness. About standing beside someone when they’re weary. About making room for the lost and broken. And above all, about the possibility of a better world—not because that world is guaranteed, but because we continue traveling toward it together. For Spring-Nuts, it’s hard to imagine many songs that more perfectly embody who we are than Land of Hope and Dreams. Everybody has a ticket on the Spring-Nut train. And more importantly, nobody gets left at the station. @springsteen #springsteen Have a wonderful weekend everyone. 🎸🎷🙌🏻

Powerful and emotional segment from last night’s incredible Spring-Nuts Café Podcast with the absolutely amazing @jakeclemons. 🎷 In this clip, Jake takes us through the deeply personal journey of losing his uncle, the legendary Big Man, Clarence Clemons, the path that ultimately led him into the E Street Band, and how the late, great @glenhansard helped guide him toward taking that leap of faith. It is an incredibly moving story. It was truly an honor and a privilege to spend nearly two hours talking with Jake. There were plenty of great stories, plenty of laughs, and some incredibly profound and emotional moments along the way. And one thing became even clearer throughout our conversation: Jake is every bit as humble as he is talented. As we talked about during the interview, perhaps more than anyone who has ever joined the E Street Band, Jake didn’t simply step onto an E Street stage. He stepped into history. He stepped into a place carrying an enormous amount of emotion, expectation and responsibility — and, of course, the legacy of one of the most beloved musicians ever to stand on that stage: his uncle, Clarence Clemons. Those were impossibly big shoes to fill. But Jake never tried to be Clarence. Instead, he honored Clarence while finding his own voice, his own presence and his own place within the E Street Band. And without question, Jake has carried that responsibility beautifully — honoring not only Clarence’s legacy, but the heart, soul and spirit of Bruce’s music every single night he walks onto that stage. I have no doubt the Big Man would be incredibly proud of his nephew — not only of the musician Jake has become, but of the man he has become. Thank you, Jake, for a very special and memorable night. Thank you for opening up to us with such honesty and heart. Thank you for the music. Thank you for carrying the E Street tradition forward while doing it in your own way. Thank you for always being so incredibly gracious and approachable with the fans. And most importantly… Thank you for being YOU. ❤️🎷 The full two-hour episode of the Spring-Nuts Café Podcast will be uploaded to our YouTube channel tomorrow afternoon! @jakeclemons @springsteen #springsteen

Dont forget!! Set your alarms!! Tonight! Special start time of 9pm EST!! New episode of The Spring-Nuts Cafe with the incredible Jake Clemons!! It's going to be another night of amazing fun!

Today's pick is one of my favorites and another song that doesn't get it's just due. Long Time Coming is ultimately a song about breaking the cycle of the past—especially the mistakes of our parents—and trying to become a better parent, partner, and person ourselves. At its center is a man looking at his wife and children and realizing that the life he has built with them gives him an opportunity to become someone different from the person he once was. The song carries a strong autobiographical feeling. Springsteen has spoken and written extensively about his complicated relationship with his father, Douglas Springsteen, and that history hangs over the character. There’s a sense that he grew up carrying emotional baggage—anger, distance, disappointment and things that were never properly expressed—and is determined not to hand that same inheritance to his own children. That is what makes one of the song’s central ideas so powerful: the character wants to avoid passing his failures and emotional scars down to his children. It isn’t about pretending the past didn’t happen. It’s about recognizing it and consciously deciding to stop the cycle. Springsteen surrounds the family with images of the outdoors—the night, stars, trees, fire and open spaces. It feels almost like the character has temporarily escaped the noise of everyday life and finally has enough quiet to look around and understand what really matters. His children are especially important to that realization. Watching them sleep and experiencing the vulnerability of fatherhood forces him to look at himself. He realizes that being a father isn’t simply about loving your children; it’s about deciding what parts of yourself you’re going to give them—and what parts you’re determined to leave behind. The title itself suggests that this moment of clarity has taken years to arrive. The character realizes that he has wandered, made mistakes, carried ghosts and wrestled with his past. Now, surrounded by the family he loves, he finally senses the possibility of renewal. That’s why the song fits so beautifully into one of Springsteen’s most constant themes: redemption doesn’t necessarily mean erasing your past. Sometimes redemption means refusing to let your past determine someone else’s future. Long Time Comin is really about fatherhood, marriage, maturity and healing. It’s the realization that you may not be able to change where you came from, but you still have some control over what you pass forward. And after a lifetime of carrying all that baggage around with him, the narrator finally seems ready to put some of it down. It’s been a long time coming—but he may finally be becoming the man, husband and father he always hoped he could be. I always say, doesn't matter how you start it's how you finish. Have a great day Peeps! See everyone tonight at 9PM at the Spring-Nuts Cafe with Jake Clemons!! 🎷🙌🏻

After taking a little break last week following our incredible DOUBLE DOSE OF E STREET with Max Weinberg and Charlie Giordano, WE’RE BACK!! And we’re continuing to bring the legendary E STREET BAND straight into YOUR HOMES! 🎶🙌🏻 This Wednesday night at a special starting time of 9 PM ET, we’re bringing you a brand-new episode of The Spring-Nuts Cafe Podcast with the one and only… 🎷JAKE CLEMONS!! 🎷 That’s right, folks! We have the honor and privilege of welcoming Jake to the Cafe to talk about his incredible journey—from his own musical path and solo work to becoming part of the E Street legacy, as well as everything he has going on now and what’s coming next. And knowing Jake, this is going to be so much more than just a conversation about music. We’re looking forward to hearing about the experiences, stories, people and moments that have shaped his journey along the way. It promises to be an incredibly special, exciting and entertaining evening! So please join Ryan, Julie, Stan and me this Wednesday night at 9PM EST, as we take another deep dive into the lives and journeys of the legendary musicians who make the E Street Band the best in the business! WEDNESDAY NIGHT!! SPECIAL TIME — 9 PM ET!! See you all at the Cafe, Spring-Nuts!! 🎷 Photographer- Rob Demartin

So many songs that Bruce has written, where his characters get in a car, trying to escape, no destination, just driving into the night. Stolen Car, the character in Hello Sunshine, just to name a couple, and of course this absolute gem off of Darkness. Something in the Night is one of Bruce's most haunting songs about loneliness, restlessness, loss, and the desperate search for something that might make you feel alive again. The character gets into his car and drives through the night with no real destination. The road offers a temporary escape from whatever is hurting him, but it can’t solve it. He’s carrying an emotional emptiness that follows him wherever he goes. The familiar Springsteen images of cars, streets, darkness, and movement are here, but unlike some of his earlier songs, the car isn’t a ticket to freedom anymore. It’s simply a place to run. That distinction is important. On Born to Run, the road often represents possibility—get in the car, get out of town, and maybe there’s a better life waiting somewhere. Springsteen’s characters realize that you can change where you are but not who you are or what has happened to you. At the heart of the song is the feeling that the character has already lost something precious. Even the driving feels less liberating and more like desperation. He wants the engine, the speed, the darkness, and the noise to drown out whatever is going on inside him. But when everything becomes quiet, the pain is still there. Musically, Springsteen makes that loneliness almost physical. The slow build, Roy Bittan’s piano, the restrained E Street Band arrangement, and especially Bruce’s anguished vocal and the scream in the song are arguably as important to the song as the lyrics themselves. Ultimately, Something in the Night is about searching for relief when you don’t even know exactly what you’re searching for. You just know something is missing, something hurts, and sitting still makes it worse—so you get behind the wheel and keep moving. It’s one of the defining ideas of Darkness on the Edge of Town: sometimes the road can take you away from a place, but it can’t take you away from the things you carry inside. We're just kids wasted on....Something in the night. Have a wonderful day my friends! 🎸🎷🙌🏻 @springsteen #springsteen Photographer-@Danny_Clinch

This is one of my favorite Springsteen ballads which is not only a hidden gem on the album, but should be performed more live. The imagery and the message is absolutely beautiful throughout. Kingdom of Days” is one of Bruce Springsteen’s most tender and mature love songs—a song on lasting love, growing older together, and recognizing how precious time becomes when you’ve shared your life with someone. The song looks at romance not through the excitement of youth, but from the perspective of two people who have accumulated years, memories, wrinkles, gray hair, and an increasingly profound appreciation for one another. The kingdom in the title isn’t a physical place. It’s the life two people have created together, built one ordinary day at a time. The passing seasons are a metaphor for aging. Rather than mourning summer as it disappears, Bruce notices the changing light on the face of the person he loves. Time is passing, but instead of allowing that realization to diminish the moment, it makes the moment more valuable. That idea was very much on Springsteen’s mind when he wrote it. Discussing the song, he described it as something that comes from having “a long, long life with somebody,” when you can see both how much you have built together and the fact that your time together is finite. He said the song was about taking some of the fear and terror out of that realization. That is what makes Kingdom of Days different from his usual love songs. It doesn’t pretend that love can stop time. Time keeps moving. People age. Seasons change. Eventually every shared life has an ending. But Springsteen’s answer to mortality is gratitude: rather than fearing every passing day, recognize that those days themselves are the gift. There’s also something beautiful about the song. This isn’t the young Bruce of Born to Run, dreaming about getting in a car and escaping into some unknown future. Here, he found comfort in staying—waking up beside the same person, laughing together, watching each other grow older and realizing that the ordinary years you have accumulated are amazing. Ultimately, Kingdom of Days is about realizing that forever isn’t really measured in years—it is measured in the days you are fortunate enough to share with someone you love. The kingdom isn’t somewhere you’re trying to drive to. When you’ve found the person with whom you want to grow old, you’re already living in it. For me, that’s what makes it one of Bruce’s most beautiful post reunion love songs: it isn’t about promising that you’ll never grow old. It’s about considering yourself blessed that you get to grow old together. To me that's everything. Like the saying goes: It's not the time in your life it's the life in your time. Have a wonderful Monday my friends. ❤️🎂🎊🎁🎉🎈🎸🎷🙌🏻

For a brief period of time, we unselfishly and without hesitation helped one another, regardless of race, religion, color, background, or belief. We were simply people helping people. We were ONE. It was literally: “Come on up, lay your hands in mine.” During that time, we proved that we ARE capable of putting aside the pettiness, the anger, the hatred, and the stupidity. We proved that we are capable of caring for one another and living the way G-D intended us to live. Unfortunately, as time passed, we slowly reverted back. And maybe one of the saddest lessons of September 11th is that it shouldn’t have to take a TRAGEDY for us to help one another. It shouldn’t take a tragedy for us to be good to one another. It shouldn’t take thousands of lives being lost to wake us up and remind us what is truly important in life. To stop fighting over things that, in the grand scheme of life, really aren’t that important. To stop complaining about things that suddenly seem so insignificant when we are reminded, every September 11th, just how quickly everything can change. We will NEVER forget the events of that sickening, “Lonesome Day.” And we will NEVER forget the people we lost. But maybe we also shouldn’t forget how easily, during that time, we rose above our differences. How we treated one another. How we discovered that maybe we really weren’t so “Worlds Apart” (another hidden gem on the Rising album) after all. And most importantly, how that day reminded us just how precious it is to DREAM OF LIFE. We cannot undo what happened. We cannot bring back the people we lost. But through love, memory, faith, compassion—and one another—we can continue to RISE ABOVE. My friends… It Doesn’t Have To Be This Hard. Just Let Love Give What It Gives. 🎸🎷🙏🏻 Never Forget 🇺🇸🙏

Good morning, Spring-Nuts! We made it through another work week! As we are all aware, today marks the 25th anniversary of the life-changing events of September 11th. All week long, we’ve been focusing on the songs and lyrics from Bruce’s iconic album The Rising. And today, on the actual anniversary, it only seems fitting that we focus on the title track itself. (It's a bit long my apologies but had a lot to say commemorating this day and song.) I’ve always said that, in my humble opinion, “The Rising” is the second-best song Bruce has written since the reunion of the E Street Band, behind only “Land of Hope and Dreams.” Again… MY opinion! 😎 It's also one of my favorite moments not only in concert but during the Serenade watching an absolutely powerful and emotional scene as everyone's hands are up in the air, some with their eyes closed, and singing "Dream of Life". “The Rising” is a song about loss, courage, sacrifice, faith, and the struggle to find hope in the aftermath of unimaginable tragedy. The song is heard through the perspective of a firefighter or first responder climbing into the World Trade Center, although Bruce keeps it universal enough to represent anyone walking toward danger while everyone else is desperately trying to escape. From the opening, the character is surrounded by confusion and darkness. He carries the physical weight of his equipment, but there is also a much greater spiritual weight to his journey—fear, responsibility, mortality, and perhaps the realization that he may never return. As the song progresses, that physical climb begins to feel almost like an ascension. The incredible imagery moves between the horror of the moment and something much more spiritual. Fire, smoke, darkness, blood, sky, bells, and dreams begin to blur together. The character seems to move from the chaos inside that building toward death, and eventually toward something beyond it. And that is what makes the chorus so incredibly powerful. “Come on up for the rising” can mean so many things at once. It can represent firefighters climbing those stairs. Souls rising after death. People rising from grief. Or an entire community—and an entire country—trying to stand again after unimaginable devastation. That repeated invitation to RISE transforms the song from simply being about death into something about resurrection, renewal, and hope. That's what I truly love about this song. Renewal and hope. The character thinks about love, family, physical touch, and the person he may be leaving behind. Bruce takes this enormous historical event and brings it down to its most basic and human level: One person thinking about another person they love. Because behind the numbers, statistics, television images, smoke, rubble, and devastation of September 11th were thousands upon thousands of individual relationships and lives suddenly torn apart. Yet The Rising ultimately refuses to remain in the darkness. Bruce acknowledges death and unimaginable grief without allowing either to have the final word. The E Street Band’s phenomenal music, and those communal voices make the song feel less like sadness and more like a spiritual gathering. One person’s tragedy becomes something carried by all of us. And ultimately, THAT is what “The Rising” means to me: Walking directly into the darkness and somehow finding the light on the other side. It honors those who climbed upward toward danger. It mourns those who never came home. It embraces those the ones they left behind. And in the end the song asks those of us who remain to RISE TOGETHER. So today, I also choose to remember something else. I remember how, in the days and weeks following those horrifying attacks, we came together. Suddenly, so many of the “problems” we thought were so important seemed insignificant. So many of the barriers we had built between ourselves disappeared. (Continued @springsteen #springsteen )

Bruce @springsteen attending the @Harry_Styles show last night at @TheGarden with his daughter Jessica. Once my daughter saw this I got a text stating that since Bruce took his daughter to the show, "daughter math" dictates that I now have to do the same. 😜

As I’ve mentioned before, I was three blocks from the World Trade Center on September 11th and watched the second plane hit. It is something I will never, ever forget. In the moments after that plane crashed into the tower, there was absolute chaos. People were running, screaming, trying to understand what we had just witnessed and desperately trying to get away. But there is another image from that morning that has stayed with me just as vividly. As I was running away from the towers, I watched firefighters and police officers running TOWARD them. While so many of us were doing everything we could to get away from the unimaginable horror unfolding in front of us, these men and women were heading directly into it. They knew the danger. They knew what they were running toward. And yet they went anyway because there were people inside who needed them. And we all know what happened just minutes later. When the towers came down, I was numb. But the image of those firefighters and police officers running past me toward those buildings kept replaying in my head. Their bravery and courage that morning is something I still struggle to put into words. To this day, I cannot imagine a greater act of selflessness than running toward something everyone else is desperately running away from simply because others need your help. And every year when September 11th comes around, those memories return as vividly as if it happened yesterday—even now, 25 years later. Bruce somehow found a way to put into words what I witnessed that morning: the courage, the sacrifice, the loss, the love—and the extraordinary humanity of those who climbed those stairs and went into the fire while the rest of us were trying to find our way out. For me, Into the Fire isn’t simply a song about September 11th. It is the sound of a memory I have carried with me for 25 years. Rather than describing the attacks themselves, Springsteen focuses on the extraordinary courage of the firefighters and other first responders who went into danger while everyone else was trying to escape it. The song is told largely from the perspective of someone left behind, mourning a person who climbed into the burning towers and never returned. Bruce imagines that final journey upward—carrying the physical weight of equipment, but also the much greater weight of responsibility and sacrifice. The image of ascending the stairs is especially poignant: every step takes the rescuer farther from safety and closer to those who desperately need help. But Into the Fire is more than a song about heroism. At its heart, it is a prayer from the living to the dead. The narrator is grieving an unbearable absence while trying to find meaning in the qualities the lost person embodied—courage, faith, hope, love, and strength. Those qualities become almost like an inheritance left behind for the people who must continue living. One of the song’s most moving ideas is the contrast between loss and legacy. The person is physically gone, but what they represented remains. Their courage can become our courage. Their strength can become our strength. Their love continues through the people whose lives they touched. Bruce also avoids turning the first responders into larger-than-life superheroes. Instead, he emphasizes their humanity. These were ordinary people—spouses, parents, children, friends and coworkers—who, at an extraordinary moment, made the decision to move toward people who needed them. That is ultimately what makes “Into the Fire” so devastating and uplifting at the same time. It mourns those who never came home while refusing to allow their final act to be defined solely by death. They walked into unimaginable darkness to help others—and the light they carried with them is what Springsteen asks the rest of us to carry forward. It is a song about people who went into the fire—and the courage, faith, hope and love they left behind for all of us. @springsteen #springsteen

As far as the concert film from Philadelphia that part one was released this morning, this is what @springsteen had to say about it and why it was filmed in Philly and why it's comin out in parts for those who were asking: Are you releasing the movie in segments now timed to the midterms? Well, it wasn’t specifically planned to fall into the midterms, but if it does, that’s great. Really, we just had Thom [Zimny] do the first seven songs to see what we had. I didn’t know what the show was like on film. He basically cut, edited, and we got the sound good on the first seven pieces. When I saw it, I said, “This has got to come out now.” I can’t wait another three, four months for the rest of the concert to be edited and have it finished. The whole thing, the pop-up tour, was about immediacy and being in this moment, providing something that I felt an audience, my audience, could use in this moment. And so as soon as I saw it, I said, “This comes out now.” Everybody said, “Well, what do we do with the rest?” I said, “Well, we’ll serialize it is what we’ll do.” And basically that’s what we’re going to do. You’ll be getting seven songs or so in four different compartments, and at the end of the day, you’ll have the whole show. I think it has more impact that way. The first seven songs, to my eye, have a tremendous amount of impact because it’s only 40 minutes. And anybody can spare that 40 minutes to get an idea of what we were trying [to do]. It’s 40 minutes, and it says everything we wanted to say. The setlist didn’t really change from night to night. Did your experience on Broadway change the way you approached putting a show together? Nope. It was simply, once we found that setlist, it was not going to be something where I threw in “Darlington County” or something else there. It just wouldn’t have made sense. That setlist was its own novel, for better or for worse. The minute we stumbled on it, with the exception of… I think we added “Clampdown” along the way. But once we found that setlist, we stuck with it the whole way. It was fun because it does get deeper as you go. The Philadelphia show that we were lucky enough to film was just one of the highlights of the tour. A lot of fans presumed you’d film the big stadium show in D.C. Why did you go with Philadelphia? Well, we didn’t film D.C. because we wanted to film two nights that could be similar and intercut. So, if I’m correct, we filmed Boston and Philly, and if I’m right, we only use Philly. So that was the reason. D.C. was a one-off and it was a great show outside in that ballpark. We had so many good shows on this tour. And the band was just ripping and roaring at the end, by the time we got towards the end. So when we hit Philly, Philly just exploded. It was wonderful. Full article here: rollingstone.com/music/music…

As you know by now we are commemorating the 25th anniversary of the horrible events of 9/11 as we focus on Bruce's incredible album The Rising. Today's song is probably one that encompasses the emotions not only of that tragic day but the resilience of our wonderful country in its aftermath. My City of Ruins” is one of Bruce Springsteen’s most powerful songs about loss, faith, community, and the determination to rebuild after everything seems to have fallen apart. Bruce originally wrote the song about Asbury Park, New Jersey, a city that had once been vibrant but had suffered through years of economic decline and abandonment. The opening images describe a place that feels almost deserted—empty streets, shuttered buildings, and reminders of a community that used to thrive. There is a deep sense of mourning for what has disappeared. But after the September 11 attacks, the song took on an entirely new meaning. Bruce performed it on the America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon, and the imagery of a wounded city suddenly became inseparable from New York, the people who had been lost, and a country trying to understand how to move forward. What began as a song about Asbury Park became something much larger: a song about what we do when the world we knew has been shattered. It's focal point is a person confronting absence. There are memories of people who are no longer there and the painful realization that familiar places can remain even after the people who gave them meaning are gone. Bruce doesn’t pretend that grief can simply be overcome. Instead, he allows the sadness and emptiness to exist. And then the song begins to change. The repeated “with these hands” section is where mourning turns into action. The hands become a symbol of everything human beings are capable of doing for one another. They can pray, work, comfort, reach out, hold someone up and ultimately help rebuild what has been destroyed. That is why the gesture Bruce often makes while performing the song—standing with his two hands raised into the air—is so powerful. It transforms the song from an individual’s lament into something almost spiritual and communal. He isn’t simply asking whether a ruined city can rise again; he’s asking whether we are willing to raise it together. And that leads to the song’s great plea to “RISE UP.” The word can mean many things at once: a city rising from devastation, a community rising after tragedy, a grieving person finding the strength to continue, or even a spiritual resurrection. Bruce never promises that what was lost can be replaced. Instead, the song suggests that hope comes from what the people who remain choose to do next. That is ultimately what makes My City of Ruins so moving. It’s a song that begins with ghosts and empty spaces but refuses to give in. Grief gives way to faith. Despair gives way to hope. And one's individual hands become many hands. The city may be in ruins. But as long as there are people willing to reach for one another, it can always rise again. Have a wonderful Wednesday my friends. 🙏🏼🎸🎷🙌🏻 Photographer: Rob Demartin @springsteen #springsteen

Bruce Springsteen has announced details for the release of the concert film “Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour (Philadelphia Freedom Cut),” capturing the band’s tour-ending show, May 30 of this year at The Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia. The first seven songs will be released, Sept. 9 at 10 a.m. ET, with three more segments to be released, one at a time, on later dates this year TBA. The seven-song segment will be available, for free, on YouTube as well as Vevo, Spotify, iTunes, Tidal and more. Springsteen said, in a press release: “I’m thrilled to be releasing our final show from the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour — recorded in the birthplace of American freedom, Philadelphia, USA. On the tour, we rocked the house from one end of the country to the other and, while we were at it, we spoke up everywhere in defense of our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our sacred democracy — which are under attack by a lawless President and his regime. It’s all captured on our Philadelphia Freedom Cut — hope you enjoy it.” The seven songs in the segment are “War,” “Born in the U.S.A.,” “Death to My Hometown,” “Clampdown,” “No Surrender,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town” and “Streets of Minneapolis.” The film is directed by Chris Hilson and Thom Zimny; edited by Zimny and Sam Shapiro; and produced by Springsteen, Zimny, Jon Landau and Adrienne Gerard. It is being released in memory of the writer and activist Dave Marsh, a close friend of Springsteen’s who died on Aug. 14. From @jaylustig @NJArtsDaily @springsteen @ThomZimny #springsteen

🎃🎸 SPRING-NUTS!! SPRING-NUTS!! 🎸🎃 We’ve got some VERY EXCITING NEWS to share!! Once again, our wonderful group and community, SPRING-NUTS, has been invited to march in this year’s Freehold Spooktacular Halloween Parade!! 👻🎃🎸 📅 Sunday, October 25th! If you marched with us last year, then you already know just how much FUN — and how special — that day was! There we were, a bunch of Spring-Nuts marching through the streets of Bruce’s hometown, singing Springsteen songs along the parade route and walking alongside the Born To Run fire engine donated by Bruce Springsteen — with people waving, smiling, singing along and cheering us on! It was one of those days that reminded us what this crazy little community of ours is all about. BUT THIS YEAR… WE’RE KICKING IT UP A NOTCH!! 😜 For the first time ever, we will have an… 🎃🎸 ACTUAL DEDICATED SPRING-NUTS FLOAT!! 🎸🎃 YES!!!! A SPRING-NUTS FLOAT — BANNERS AND ALL — RAMRODING DOWN THE STREETS OF FREEHOLD!! 😂🎸 How freaking cool is THAT?! AND THERE’S MORE!! We are incredibly proud to announce that this year we’ll also be teaming up with TWO amazing organizations that are very near and dear to our hearts: 🎸 TeachRock and 🎸 Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music Both organizations will be joining Spring-Nuts in the parade, and we’ll proudly serve as “Spring-Bassadors” as we march through Freehold together and help spread the word about the incredible work they do. After all… Spring-Nuts ARE the extended family of E Street! 😜😂🎸 All kidding aside, this is going to be a REALLY special day and, most importantly… A TON OF FUN!! AND!!! After the parade ends, we are going to head over to the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, to enjoy all the activities at a Spring-Nuts discount for that day! We will provide that information in the coming days but it will be a special time I assure you! This event is continuing to evolve and other surprises planned! So stay tuned @everyone! And as always with Spring-Nuts… ❤️ EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO JOIN US!! ❤️ There is just one important thing: 👉 YOU MUST REGISTER WITH US BEFOREHAND! We need to know exactly how many people will be marching with us so we can properly plan for our group and float. If you’d like to join the Spring-Nuts Parade Crew, email us at: 📧 Springnutsworldwide@gmail.com Please use the subject line: SPRING-NUTS PARADE Let us know that you’d like to march, and be sure to register any friends or family members who will be joining you as well! We also want to send a huge THANK YOU to Beverly Bressler and Freehold Mayor Kevin A. Kane once again inviting Spring-Nuts to be part of such a wonderful community event. We truly appreciate being included and can’t wait to come back! So dust off those Halloween costumes, warm up those singing voices and get ready to represent the Asylum!! 😂🎃🎸 A SPRING-NUTS FLOAT… TEACHROCK… THE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ARCHIVES… SPRINGSTEEN SONGS… AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF SPRING-NUTS RAMRODING THROUGH FREEHOLD!! 🎸🎷🙌🏻 @MVZaGoGo

Continuing on with this weeks The Rising theme, today's pick is arguably Bruce's saddest song. The music pierces your soul and the lyrics are simple but rip at your heart. You’re Missing” is one of Bruce's most haunting songs, from The Rising. Written in the emotional aftermath of September 11, it focuses not on the catastrophe itself, but on something quieter and in many ways more devastating: the empty space left behind when someone you love suddenly doesn’t come home. The song places us inside a home where everyday life continues. Familiar objects are still there, children and family routines continue, and the outside world keeps moving—but one person is absent. That contrast is what gives the song its power. Everything looks almost normal, yet nothing feels normal because the person who belonged there is missing. Springsteen never needs to describe the towers, the planes, or Ground Zero. Instead, he concentrates on the experience shared by thousands of families after 9/11: waiting, looking around the house, noticing belongings, expecting to hear a familiar voice or footsteps, and gradually confronting the realization that the person isn’t coming back. The repeated idea of “you’re missing” becomes more painful each time because the absence seems to occupy every part of the home. There is also a internal struggle underneath the song. Grief begins to raise questions that don’t have satisfying answers. How can this happen and why someone could simply disappear from the life they had built. Springsteen doesn’t try to resolve those questions. He leaves the listener inside that uncertainty, which makes the song feel remarkably authentic. What makes You’re Missing especially powerful is that it isn’t only a 9/11 song. It became a universal song about loss and bereavement. Anyone who has lost someone close can understand that strange experience of looking around and realizing that the world is still exactly where it was yesterday—but the person who made that world feel complete is gone. Like in Terry’s Song, Bruce would later put it so profoundly: “They say you can’t take it with you, but I say that they’re wrong. Cause all I know that I woke up this morning and something big was gone….” 😔 And maybe that’s what makes You’re Missing so devastating. Grief isn’t always found in the moment someone leaves us. Sometimes it’s found in everything that remains—the empty chair, the quiet room, the familiar belongings, and all those ordinary moments when you instinctively expect someone to still be there. For so many families after September 11th, there was a morning when they woke up and something unimaginably big was gone. And more than two decades later, there are still empty chairs at family tables and voices that are missed every single day. The world moved forward. Life continued. But for those who lost someone they loved, a piece of their world will always be missing. And perhaps that is the heartbreaking truth at the center of this beautiful song: When we truly love someone, their absence never becomes ordinary. We simply learn how to carry it. Never forget. 🙏🏼 @springsteen #springsteen

This Friday will mark the 25th anniversary of the day that changed the world, September 11th. In remembrance of this tragic and devastating time in our country, this weeks photo lyrics will come from Bruce's iconic and in my personal opinion, Bruce's greatest and most important album of the 20th century, The Rising. As I have mentioned over the years, I was 3 blocks from the World Trade Center and witnessed the second plane hit. Every year I watch new documentaries on 9/11 as a reminder how blessed and fortunate I was to been saved that day when so many others tragically were not. 25 years it's still unfathomable and surreal that this even happened. So this week I would like to pay homage to the fallen and to the album that was so necessary at that time and in a lot of ways just as important today as many of the songs can be interpreted in different ways to different situations going on the world today. I would like to start with this hidden gem. Nothing Man. This track is one of the record’s quietest and most introspective songs. It deals with survival, trauma, isolation, and the uncomfortable experience of being called a hero when you don’t feel heroic at all. The song is told from the perspective of someone who has survived the terrible event and returned to his community. People around him look at him differently because of what he has been through. They may admire him and see courage in his actions, but inside, he feels disconnected from the person everyone else believes him to be. Rather than feeling like a hero, he feels almost invisible—a “nothing man.” That idea is at the heart of the song. Springsteen explores the distance between how the outside world sees someone and how that person sees himself. Everyone else may want a heroic story with a clear meaning, but the survivor is left carrying memories and emotions that other people can’t fully understand. There is also a powerful sense of survivor’s guilt running through the song. Why did I make it when others didn’t? Why are people celebrating me when I don’t feel that I did anything extraordinary? Bruce's character seems uncomfortable with the attention because simply being alive has become something other people attach meaning to, while he is still trying to understand it himself. Nothing Man strongly evokes the emotional aftermath of 9/11, particularly the experiences of firefighters, police officers, first responders, and survivors. But as our great songwriter Bruce always seems to be able to do, he keeps the character open enough that “Nothing Man” can speak to anyone who has survived something traumatic and then struggled to return to ordinary life. Like I said a lot of Bruce's music on the Rising can apply 25 years later to so many different things going on today. What makes the song especially powerful to me is its restraint. There isn’t this huge triumphant declaration that everything will eventually be fine. Instead, Springsteen puts us inside the loneliness of someone who has experienced something enormous and now has to figure out how to live an ordinary life after an extraordinary trauma. It’s just another quiet and haunting reminder that sometimes the people we call heroes are privately fighting battles the rest of us can’t see. In fact it's a personal message I constantly try to bring to people's attention, and absolutely remind myself, is that this rule doesn't just apply to our "heroes", but to everyday people, our group members and friends, although we see what we see on the internet, we really do not know the battles they are privately fighting. So try to always have empathy, patience and compassion. There are wars being waged internally that within our friends and family that we just can't see. Words matter, especially words of encouragement and support. It can make the difference in someone's personal struggles. Could make someone who feels like "Nothing" into someone who feels like "Everything". Photographer Danny Clinch

Bruce getting his Gypsy Biker vibes on at the Shoreline Harley Davidson shop today. @springsteen #springsteen @shoreline_hd

NEW NUGS RELEASE! Stockholm July 2, 1988 is a companion to the famous radio broadcast concert at the same venue 24 hours later (also released in the Live Archive series). This night one Stockholm warm-up delivers a looser, 30-song set teeming with Tunnel tour gems, including "Boom Boom, "Adam Raised A Cain," "Seeds," "Chimes Of Freedom," "Paradise By The 'C'," "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)," "I'm A Coward," "Light Of Day," "Sweet Soul Music and "Raise Your Hand," plus the storming coupling of "War" into "Born In The U.S.A." and a tour debut for "Cadillac Ranch.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND, LAND OF HOPE AND DREAMS TOUR FROM THE PHILADELPHIA SHOW, SEPTEMBER 9TH. THE PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM CUT. @springsteen #Springsteen #estreetband

It's definitely the White Whale of live Springsteen songs I'm personally chasing. Stevie's solo in the end is stellar and loved watching the band record it on the Thom Zimny documentary of Letter to You. It's absolutely unbelievable that this track was written in the 1970s but wasn't released until Letter To You. Also the fact that he wrote these crazy lyrics in his 20s is mind boggling! If I Was the Priest Springsteen taking religion, morality, authority, and the American West and throwing them all into the same surreal movie. Beneath all of that strange and colorful imagery is a young man questioning the rules he’s inherited and trying to figure out his own place in the world. It’s rebellious, imaginative, funny at times, and already shows Bruce doing something that would become a huge part of his songwriting—using larger-than-life characters to explore very human questions about faith, freedom, temptation, and identity. But what makes this song particularly interesting is when you consider how young Bruce was when he wrote it. It sounds like hes looking at all the institutions and rules he’s inherited—religion, authority, morality, adulthood and questioning those institutions and do I want to become one them or who decides what's right or wrong? Bruces character seems unwilling to simply accept the rules handed down to him. Instead, he’s trying to determine for himself what is right, where he belongs, and what he believes. Hey who can't relate to this character these days! Even as early as Bruce's 20s, you can hear themes that Bruce would spend the next fifty years writing about—faith, doubt, freedom, responsibility, sin, redemption and trying to figure out your own place in this world. In the end, the world Bruce describes doesn’t divide neatly into saints and sinners or good guys and bad guys. Everyone seems compromised in some way. But compromised or not; here in Spring-Nuts, we accept all. (Well not the bad guys 😉). But we are the "Host with the Most" and at times the Spring-Nut Asylum can be a social media "Burlesque Show" ! 🤪 There's a Light....On Yonder Mountain....And It's Calling Me To Shine.... Have a wonderful weekend my friends! 🎸🎷🙌🏻

The Wrestler” is a deeply reflective song about a man who has spent his life taking punishment, pushing people away, and surviving through sheer toughness, only to realize that the qualities that helped him endure have also left him isolated. The song works perfectly within the movie, but Bruce makes the character universal. The wrestler becomes a metaphor for anyone who has been knocked down repeatedly but keeps getting back up—even when they’re no longer sure what they’re fighting for. One of the song’s most powerful ideas is the contrast between what the narrator can endure physically and what he struggles to handle emotionally. He knows how to take a hit. He knows how to perform. He knows how to survive. But love, intimacy, vulnerability, and accepting help are much harder for him. There’s also tremendous self-awareness in the song. The narrator isn’t pretending to be a hero. He recognizes his own flaws and seems to understand that some of his loneliness is the result of choices he has made. Beneath all the bravado is someone essentially asking: After everything I’ve done and everything I’ve survived, is there still a place for me? That’s what makes “The Wrestler” so heartbreaking. It’s not really about wrestling. It’s about aging, regret, loneliness, pride, and the human instinct to keep going long after the applause has faded. The ring is simply Bruce’s metaphor for life—a place where we get knocked down, carry our scars, and somehow find the strength to stand up one more time. I highly recommend watching the movie. Very well done. The lyrics to The Wrestler can be twisted into our own daily lives. Lord knows we break our butts in this crazy world. And at times by the end of the day we feel like a one legged dog making his way down the street. But hey that's why we have the Asylum. To revitalize and rejuvenate ourselves with some really great people. So Tell Me My Friends Can You Ask For Anything More.....Tell and Friends Can You Ask For Anything More. @springsteen #springsteen

From the legendary Darlene Love: Hi everyone! ❤️ I’m reaching out to all of you because this little social media family reaches a pretty big audience, and maybe one of you can help me with something I’ve been thinking about. As you know, I turned 85 in July and I’m looking forward to another wonderful holiday season doing what I love. 🎄❤️ As much as I may look young for my age, my body occasionally reminds me, “Darlene, you better slow down!” 😂 I’m not ready to retire. I still love singing, performing and being with all of you. What I would love to explore is finding a place I can call my musical home. A residency where I could perform a few shows a week without constantly traveling from city to city. Maybe it’s The Carlyle in New York City, a casino in Las Vegas or Atlantic City, or another iconic venue where people could say, “When you’re in town, you go see Darlene Love.” Something like my own modern day Bottom Line. A place people associate with me where I can sing the hits, tell some stories and maybe even sing a little Christmas music all year long! 🎶🎄❤️ So I’m putting it out into the universe. If you know the perfect venue, have a suggestion, or have a relationship with someone who might be interested, please reach out to my publicist, Len.Evans@ProjectPublicity.com and he’ll make sure it gets to the right people who handle my bookings. I’m not going anywhere yet! I’m just thinking about how I can keep doing what I love while letting the road come to me for a change. ❤️🎶 Love you all, DARLENE ❤️ And by the way… only 114 days until Christmas! 🎄🎅🏻❤️✨

Today's song choice comes from probably my favorite album since the Rising by Bruce. The obvious theme of Letter to You is recognizing your mortality. How life is short and to make the most of your limited time on this earth. And once again Bruce puts it together so eloquently. I mean who else can use the term "Mongrel Trees" in a song? 😉 My only criticism of Bruce is that I wish he played more of the Letter to You album tracks live and with the full band. But that's my personal opinion. The title track of Letter to You” is a deeply personal song about looking back on a lifetime and putting your truest self into the words you leave behind. Bruce treats the song almost like an actual letter—one filled with his memories, mistakes, fears, joys, losses, and everything he has learned along the way. There’s a strong sense of mortality and reflection running through it. He’s reached a point in life where he can look back honestly at where he’s been and the people who have traveled alongside him. Rather than hiding the difficult parts, he puts “all the hard things” and “all that I found true” into the letter. It’s an act of vulnerability: this is who I am, this is what I’ve lived, and this is what I want to leave with you. The song can also be heard as Bruce writing directly to his audience. After decades of music, the songs themselves have essentially become his letters to us—pieces of his life, beliefs, hopes, disappointments, and dreams preserved in music. That interpretation becomes even more powerful in the context of the Letter to You album. Bruce was confronting the deaths of old friends and bandmates and thinking about being the last surviving member of his first band, The Castiles. That awareness of time passing hangs over the entire record. All of Bruce's albums have some sort of message and theme. But I would dare to say that other than possibly Tunnel of Love, Letter to You is one of his most personal albums to date. Definitely some of his most powerful work. Letter to You just hits home and I think it hits home even more with each passing year. I think the best quote to describe it would be: "The older you get, the more it means." So Im digging deep in my soul and signing my name true...Life is short. Let's enjoy it while we have it. That's my Letter to You. @springsteen #springsteen

Mind blowing evening tonight at the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music with the screening of the making of Sun City and the conversation after between Bob Santelli and the incomparable @StevieVanZandt . It was so well done and so many things I had no idea about regarding the production of this protest song, not to mention the homework Stevie had to do on the project as well as the pushback he was getting. Loved seeing the young Stevie, Bruce and Clarence, and forgot how powerful and awesome Sun City was and the impact it had on taking down the South African government. Stevie said to the audience that most people when they go solo they want to make hits. He leaves rhe E Street Band right before what Stevie refers to "missing out on the big payday" and instead becomes political and does political music. Everyone laughed in audience. After the show I told Stevie, you think you missed out on the "big payday", but rest your head at night knowing that your payday when it's all said and done is that you made a difference and changed the world. Phenomenal job by Bob Santelli, Eileen Chapman, Melissa Kozlowski and all of the @SpringsteenCAM crew. You created a landmark that will bring enjoyment and memories that will last a lifetime. @MVZaGoGo

Good morning Spring-Nuts!! Hope everyone is doing well! Time for today's Bruce Juice!! Today the West Side Story opera known as Incident On 57th Street. Spanish Johnny and Puerto Rican Jane. The Cool Romeo and his Late Juliet. A story as old as time itself. Probably my two favorite characters in a Springsteen song. So many great lines in this masterpiece and an all around captivating story. Don't have to sell anyone on this being one of Bruce's all time greatest songs hes ever written. Musically and lyrically. This is just one of many songs Bruce has written that can be an instant movie. It's one of Bruce’s great early cinematic story-songs—a gritty, romantic tale of two young people trying to find love and redemption amid the danger and temptation of the New York City streets. Incident is Springsteen songwriting at its best. His story telling and imagery is a full length movie in 8 minutes. It's hard to find a better second half of a Springsteen album than Incident 57th Street, Rosalita and New York City Serenade. As its always compared to, Rock and Roll’s version of West Side Story. One of the most poignant paragraphs in Incident : "Well like a cool Romeo he made his moves, oh she looked so fine Like a late Juliet she knew he'd never be true but then she really didn't mind Upstairs a band was playin', the singer was singin' something about goin' home She whispered, "Spanish Johnny, you can leave me tonight but just don't leave me alone." But in the end, Spanish Johnny leaves Puerto Rican Jane for another chance to make a "little easy money tonight", just like she knew he would. They "may find it out on the street tonight baby, or walk until the morning light, maybe." Their story is left unresolved. She still waits there to this day, a symbol of the sacrifice that love demands even when it can make no promises. I guess another example of “Waiting for a moment that just don’t come” . At its heart, Incident is about searching for salvation through another person when the world around you keeps pulling you in the opposite direction. Jane represents love, hope and the possibility of escape; the street represents danger, temptation and the life Johnny can’t quite leave behind. It’s romantic, tragic and hopeful all at once—and you can already hear Bruce developing the themes of escape, redemption, loyalty and the possibility of a better life that would define so much of his later work. And that unresolved ending is part of the beauty: we never find out whether love saves Spanish Johnny. Bruce leaves him somewhere between Jane’s arms and the street, still searching for the answer. Bruce’s story telling has such a “feel so real “ power to it, I need to remind myself that these are in fact fictional characters. Nonetheless, one day I hope Spanish Johnny gets to come home to Jane. Have a Terrific Tuesday my friends. 🎸🎷🙌🏻 Photographer: @Danny_Clinch @springsteen #springsteen

A huge congratulations to an absolute legend Mr Tom Cunningham for having @springsteen on his Springsteen On Sunday on @1071TheBoss The Boss show yesterday. Incredible interview and couldn't have happened to a more deserving and nicer person. We are all beaming for you Tom! Fantastic interview my friend!!

All visitors to 107.1 The Boss and Springsteen On Sunday are requested to sign the Visitors Log. @springsteen @1071TheBoss

On Friday the new welcome mats at @SpringsteenCAM by @springsteen himself! 😉 Thanks for the bird’s eye view, Stan Cain 🤪😚

From @MicheleAmabile : Holy crap! Bruce Springsteen is live at the 1071 The Boss Studio right now on Springsteen On Sunday with Tom Cunningham on @1071TheBoss. Fantastic interview and Bruce has been on all morning!

Today is the anniversary of a truly momentous and epic Springsteen and E-Street Band show. The show known as “Met Life 3.” The final show of the 3 night stand at Met Life. For me it became my all time favorite Springsteen show ever. There were so many twists, turns, surprises and tour debuts. As all Springsteen shows tend to be, it was an all-out party. But It was also a drastic set list change up from the other River shows Bruce has done up until this point. Our jaws dropped lower and lower with every classic song Bruce and the Band were busting out. Hard To Be A Saint In The City, Blinded By The Light, Does This Bus Stop, Sandy, Kitty’s Back, Downbound Train, Secret Garden, Living Proof, Pretty Flamingo, and yes a deafening performance of “The Law” Incident into Rosalita!! Clocking in close to 4 hours Bruce shouted out: IM NOT QUITTING!! Then the encores which included Jungleland, Twist And Shout, Glory Days, Tenth Avenue, BTR and of course Jersey Girl!! Damn! The encores were a separate show in itself! Just a truly epic show. One I for one will never forget. Julie and I call it the "Knockout Show" for various reasons lol. We definitely made our presence known with the hordes of Spring-Nut t-shirts at Met Life. Met Life itself put our tailgate group photo on their homepage website! Spring-Nuts made that stadium our personal Asylum for those 3 Met Life shows. I met so many of you during that 3 night stand, and our tailgates and now 3 years later I look back at all the friendships we made. It was an amazing time for Spring-Nuts and for me personally. It was an absolute gift to be part of that show. And if you were there that night, you knew you were witnessing something special. Not just based solely on the set list itself which was jaw dropping. Bruce and the Band were on top of their game and you felt their energy, their power and more so their joy they were delivering on stage. Just writing about it and remembering it brings back all that adrenaline I felt that night. @springsteen #springsteen @MetLifeStadium

There’s nothin’ like playing at home. There’s nothing like being 16 years old and having to sell a certain amount of tickets so you can play inside the Pony, and it’s just your cousins at the show,” the band’s frontman Jack Antonoff said during the Shadow of the City Festival at Stone Pony Summer Stage. “There’s nothing like playing in the place you wrote the songs from. There’s nothing like going through a lot, then being reunited with your people. It means the world, everybody. It means the world to be supported by you and my friends and my family.” As Antonoff launched into a rendition of Tom Waits’ “Jersey Girl,” the crowd roared as #Springsteen joined the stage for the nostalgic number. Notably, while it’s one of Springsteen‘s most beloved songs about New Jersey, the track was actually written by Waits and appeared on his 1980 LP, Heartattack and Vine, inspired by his wife Kathleen Brennan. Then a awesome version of Chinatown. Love seeing @springsteen and @jackantonoff so happy on stage and having a great time. I say it all the time. Nothing like the Asbury Park music scene in the world.

You never know who will pop into the @SpringsteenCAM ! Special visitor today! 🎸 While at the Center, Bruce viewed our introductory film in the Powell Soundstage with Laurene Powell Jobs and family and toured the completed exhibits for the first time - to include checking out the Mongeluzzi Family Gallery with Bob and Meredith Mongeluzzi 📸 @springsteen

Latest episode of The Spring-Nuts Cafe with Charlie Giordano is now uploaded on our YouTube channel! You can view this one and all the other guests on our show there or on our Spring-Nuts Cafe group as well. Enjoy!! piped.video/nQ2SfwCa78M?is=uSjo…

Another fascinating episode of the Spring-Nuts Cafe podcast with the awesome keyboardist for the legendary E Street Band Charlie Giordano! We spoke about everything from his days playing with Pat Benatar and Joe Cocker, leading into the Seeger Sessions and ultimately touring with Bruce and the Band. Here is a snippet of the show where Charlie discussed when @springsteen made the call to Charlie to come in and sit in with the band as the irreplaceable Danny Federici was going for treatment at the time. Hearing the process from Charlie himself was emotional even for him. But in true Bruce form he made Charlie feel comfortable and accepted instantly. Charlie is so humble and such a wonderful human being. It was a pleasure and honor to interview him and hear so many unknown stories from someone we don't hear from often. A absolute asset to a well oiled machine known as the E Street Band. Full episode will be available tomorrow on our YouTube channel. #springsteen #estreetband

Western Stars is a beautifully cinematic song about aging, fading fame, loneliness, and holding onto the memories of who you once were. Bruce sings through the character of an aging Western actor—a man who once had his moment in the spotlight but now lives largely in the shadow of his former life. He remembers when he was recognizable, when his career meant something, and when he even appeared alongside John Wayne. But those glory days have passed, and now he survives on smaller jobs, conventions, commercials and the occasional recognition from someone who remembers him. What makes the song so moving is that Bruce treats this character with tremendous dignity. He isn’t bitter about getting older; he’s simply aware that time has moved on without him. The applause has faded, but the memories haven’t. There’s also a deeper meaning beyond the aging actor. The “western stars” can represent all of us looking back at the brightest moments of our lives—the people we were, the dreams we chased, the love we experienced and the moments when we felt like the world was ours. The line about waking up in the morning and having “another day” becomes especially powerful. Despite everything he’s lost, he’s still here. And sometimes, simply getting another sunrise is enough. Western Stars is Bruce writing about what happens after the spotlight moves on—when the crowds disappear, youth fades and you’re left with your memories. But rather than mourning what’s gone, the song finds beauty and dignity in still being here, looking toward the horizon and appreciating another day beneath those western stars. Love revisiting this album and remembering how truly beautiful it is. C'mon and ride me down easy, ride me down easy, friend 'Cause tonight the western stars are shining bright again...... @springsteen #springsteen

Don't Forget!! Tonight 8PM EST! Another brand new live episode of The Spring-Nuts Cafe podcast! Tonight's guest is the keyboardist of the legendary E Street Band Mr Charlie Giordano!! Join us at 8pm! See everyone tonight! #springsteen @springsteen

Here is the full episode of last night's Spring-Nuts Cafe with the Mighty @EStreetMax piped.video/FXS8LZc2wZk?is=RJJ3…

No Rest For The Spring-Nuts Cafe Weary! Next up, we have yet another member of the legendary E-Street Band! The incredible Charlie Giordano!! Set your alarms for tomorrow night at 8PM EST for night 2 of the Spring-Nuts Cafe podcast where we bring E Street to YOU! Going to be another night of fun and incredible stories from Charlie and the life of being in the legendary E Street Band!!