![]() To hear him glide from “Growin’ Up” to “Badlands” to the grim folk of “The Ghost of Tom Joad” and “Long Time Comin” and back to muscular anthems like “The Rising” or “Wrecking Ball” is to understand the full breadth of Springsteen’s abilities, as well as his knack for crafting human-scaled arena rock, anthems that are recognizable individually even as they resonate universally. (All that said, Chapter and Verse is essential only for Springsteen completists-do casual Boss fans even exist?-and isn’t crucial to the enjoyment of reading Born to Run.) The sonic evolution is a story presently more cleanly, with no traces of the growing pains and long dark nights of the soul Springsteen undertook in order to keep pushing himself as a singer-songwriter. The remainder of the 18-track album simply provides familiar signposts for the ascent of Springsteen and the E Street Band, skipping across his catalog to arrive at 2012’s Wrecking Ball (an album Springsteen feels was unfairly overlooked upon its initial release). ![]()
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