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Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust Audio CD

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Bruce Springsteen Band: Bruce Springsteen
Title: Devils & Dust
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Release Date: 2005-04-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Devils & Dust 2: All The Way Home 3: Reno 4: Long Time Comin' 5: Black Cowboys 6: Maria's Bed 7: Silver Palomino 8: Jesus Was an Only Son 9: Leah 10: The Hitter 11: All I'm Thinkin' About 12: Matamoras Banks

Addictive and Hypnotic
While I love the rocking side of Bruce, this is my favorite Bruce album. This collection of music is poignant and at times dark, but always enticing. Could have done without the F*** word and the sexual explicit content, which restricts the potential listening audience. .


If You Don't Like This Album, You Don't Like Music.
Do not get this album hoping for an E Street Band burst of energy. This album is a very fitting entry into Springsteen's solo acoustic collection. Do get this album to hear why Bruce is so frequently placed with Bob Dylan as a lyrical master. The Boss' ability to tell a narrative through a simple song, with a minimal amount of words has always floored me. Anyone who follows his lyrics closely will find all of "what the boss does" represented here. There are songs of social concern, songs of lost love, songs that are a well-spring of hope, songs of eternal damnation and songs that just pure fun.

Check this, The Ghost of Tom Joad and Nebraska out to see why Springsteen is an artist as well as a showman. You won't be disappointed. Unless, of course, you don't like music.


"Fear's a powerful thing"
The curve balls thrown in life care nothing about the person who is nervously scratching a spot inside the batter's box. The folk music soundscape delivers somber postcards from the cold shadows that can attack a person at any moment and in any location.

The material was compiled from the early-1990s to 2004 and released in April 2005, with the album debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The dozen numbers - clocking 50:55 - covers a variety of poignant and timeless issues; lust masquerading for love (Reno), life during wartime (Devils & Dust) and an anonymous death during a quest for freedom (Matamoros Banks).

The Dual Disc provides the listener with the "regular" album and a DVD with 5. 1 surround sound, music videos and commentary by Springsteen. The songs are from a master storyteller who brings an urgent message from the dead ends and washed-out paths of the American Dream.


Well worth adding to your collection
His raspy voice and anger were what drew me to him first. I have been a casual listener to Bruce Springsteen for about twenty years. I was a teenager, and I was raspy and angry, too. Now, years later, I find that what I really want is depth and insight and humility in the face of insoluble problems and a world rich with contradictions and meaning. Bruce gives that in this album. The songs are haunting and sad mostly, with the anger muted and in the background. Jesus was an only son seems to me to speak of a faith that hangs on even though others in that faith have torn away the roots. I don't know much about his other albums, even though I have them, because they seem too earnest, too angry, and to be honest they scare me off a bit. But this one--wow. I think I'll go listen to it again right now. I learn something new every time. The music and the story work together--for the first time in a long time, since maybe Joni Mitchell's early stuff or Queen's Day at the Races, I can say that this is a real album and not just a collection of songs. Go get it.


I've Only Had 1 Quick Listen
I didn't really care for "Nebraska" or "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" and thought this one was going to be more of the same. I've only had one quick listen and haven't really had the opportunity to sit down and listen to it in depth. At first listen though I quite enjoyed what I heard. While I still prefer his albums with the E-Street Band, this was better than what I expected.

On a side note, I didn't really care for the F-bomb he dropped in probably my favourite song (track 4 I think). It seems a little beneath an artist of Bruce's talents. I didn't even notice but my young daughter pointed it out to me as we were listening. Come on Bruce, don't drop yourself down to the lowest common denominator.

Burlington, Ontario .


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