Word: springsteen
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...Hold Steady Stay Positive; out July 15 These rock jams about aging hipsters from a band of aging hipsters are cut-rate Springsteen, right down to Craig Finn's croaky vocals and keyboard-riff rapture. But suckers for the veneration of things white people like (water towers, daddy issues, Joe Strummer) and fear (aging, townies, not being cool) will undoubtedly be charmed...
...roll's most influential backing bands for nearly 40 years, Danny Federici hardly reveled in the limelight. The E Street Band keyboardist--he played organ, accordion and glockenspiel, as the situation demanded--would arrive just in time for shows, then duck out as soon as they finished, leading Bruce Springsteen to call him "Phantom Dan." He first played alongside the Boss in clubs on the New Jersey Shore in the 1960s, and his signature sound can be heard on many of Springsteen's hits, notably 1973's 4th of July, Asbury Park and 1980's Hungry Heart. Federici...
...comments first surfaced on the internet, a Google search of Snobama was bringing up nearly 4,000 hits--which is ironic, considering that he is the only candidate in the race whose mother once collected food stamps. That's why he has rolled out the endorsements of Bruce Springsteen and the American Hunters and Shooters Association and put more emphasis on what he shares with working-class voters. He talked about the struggles of his single mom, and the fact that he and his wife had to take out student loans to finance their law-school educations--loans they didn...
...there anyone you want to interview whom you haven't yet? -Andy Green, Clinton, IowaI've interviewed every major political figure. I'd like to have a conversation with Bruce Springsteen. I earned my way through law school by booking a Springsteen concert...
...adds, "I saw the Arctic Monkeys." This is cool, Joel agrees. That itch scratched, Bell, whom the Chicago Sun-Times has called an heir to Billy Graham, heads off to give a sermon on parenting that starts with a soccer-dad riff and ends with a recording of Bruce Springsteen talking about the Virgin Mary...