31. desember 2022. Godt Nytt år!
Da har vi kommet til årets siste dag og det er på tide å vende blikket fremover mot 2023.
I skrivende stund er det 31 dager og 14 timer igjen til turnestarten i Amalie Arena i Florida. Nedtellingsuret kan dere se på menyen til høyre.
Jeg vil begynne med å takke alle for året som har gått og jeg setter stor pris på alle dere som er innom Badlandso.
Jeg ser frem til året som kommer og er sikker på at vi kommer til å oppleve mange store øyeblikk når Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band legger ut på en etterlengtet turne. Jeg vil, som tidligere, omtale hver av de 62 konsertene på turneen og følge opp med statistikk på låter og turnepremierer.
Jeg ser frem til å treffe flere av dere på en eller flere konserter i både inn- og utland i løpet av våren og sommeren neste år.
Happy New Year
Video: Rune
Her er noen av "høydepunktene" fra året 2022.
Gjesteartisten Bruce
Det har vært et veldig begivenhetsrikt år, selv uten Bruce Springsteen på turne. Springsteen har dukket opp som gjesteartist på flere store konserter i året som har gått. Den 1. oktober var han med "The Killers" og fremførte "Badlands", "A Dustland Fairytale" og "Born To Run". Den 26. juli var han på scenen med "The Bleachers" og fremførte "Chinatown".
Paul og Bruce, Glastonbury (25/6-22)
I juni opptrådte han to ganger med Paul McCartney. En gang på MetLife Stadium, i East Rutherford, New Jersey den 16. juni. Der var han med å fremførte låtene "Glory Days, "I Wanna Be Your Man" og "The End".
Noen dager senere, den 25. juni, spilte Paul McCartney på Glastonbury Festival i England. Her var Bruce med og fremførte "Glory Days" og "I Wanna Be Your Man".
Tidligere i juni dukket Springsteen opp på konserten til "Coldplay", på MetLife Stadium, og var med og fremførte "Working On A Dream" og "Dancing In The Dark".
Bruce med "Coldplay"
I tillegg til disse opptredener på diverse konserter, har og Bruce også deltatt på flere TV Talkshow, spesielt etter lanseringen av det nye albumet, som jeg kommer tilbake til.
2023 Tour
Den 24. mai kom bekreftelsen vi lenge har ventet på. Bruce Springsteen og hans legendariske The E Street Band skal igjen utpå turne. For første gang siden "The River Tour", som pågikk i 2016-17, blir det igjen konserter med Bruce og bandet.
Fra "The River" turneen i 2016 (Ullevi 25/6-16)
Foto: Rune
Europa-turneen begynner i Barcelona den 28. april og avsluttes i Monza i Italia den 25. juli.
Også Norge er tilgodesett med to konserter. Disse holdes på Voldsløkka i Oslo den 30. juni og 2. juli. Dette vil være første gang Bruce holder en konsert her.
Springsteen er klar for ny turne i 2023
Det er planlagt med 31 konserter i både Europa og i USA, altså 62 konserter så langt.
Selv om det enda ikke er bekreftet, tyder mye på at turneen fortsetter i USA på sensommeren, etter at Europa turneen er over. Det er også mye som tyder på at Bruce og bandet deretter tar turen videre til Australia og New Zealand.
Oversikt over turneen:
Turneen begynner, som tidligere nevnt, i Tampa, Florida den 1. februar og avsluttes i Prudential Center i Newark, NJ den 14. april.
Også denne gangen vil det bli muligheter til å kjøpe konsertopptak fra samtlige konserter på turneen.
Siden "High Hopes" turneen i 2014, som for øvrig ikke kom innom Europa, har hver konsert blitt gitt ut av Springsteen konsernet.
Ved siden av nevnte turne, innebefatter også dette "The River Tour", som pågikk fra 2016-2017.
Man kan allerede nå forhåndskjøpe opptak fra de 31 konserten i USA og de 31 konsertene i Europa.
Klikk på bildene for å komme til bestillingen. Only The Strong Survive
Den 11. november ble Bruce Springsteens 21. studioalbum sluppet.
Dette er en samling med 15 soul-coverlåter. Samlingen har også fått med benevnelsen "Vol. 1" og en oppfølger av albumet kommer mest sannsynlig neste år – ryktene sier våren.
Albumet er det 21. studioalbumet fra Springsteen
Albumet ble spilt inn på Thrill Hill Recording i New Jersey og er produsert av Ron Aniello.
Soul legenden Sam Moore er med og synger på låtene "Soul Days" og "I Forgot to Be Your Lover". Ellers er også blant andre "The E Street Horns", Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Michelle Moore, Curtis King Jr., Dennis Collins og Fonzi Thornton med og deltar på albumet.
Sangene på "Only The Strong Survive":
1. Only the Strong Survive
2. Soul Days feat. Sam Moore
3. Nightshift
4. Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
5. The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
6. Turn Back the Hands of Time
7. When She Was My Girl
8. Hey, Western Union Man
9. I Wish It Would Rain
10. Don’t Play That Song
11. Any Other Way
12. I Forgot to Be Your Lover feat. Sam Moore
13. 7 Rooms of Gloom
14. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
15. Someday We’ll Be Together
Springsteen klar for litt Sweet Soul Music
Fra Bruce Springsteens hjemmeside:
“I wanted to make an album where I just sang. And what better music to work with than the great American songbook of the Sixties and Seventies? I’ve taken my inspiration from Levi Stubbs, David Ruffin, Jimmy Ruffin, the Iceman Jerry Butler, Diana Ross, Dobie Gray, and Scott Walker, among many others. I’ve tried to do justice to them all—and to the fabulous writers of this glorious music. My goal is for the modern audience to experience its beauty and joy, just as I have since I first heard it. I hope you love listening to it as much as I loved making it.”
Bruce Springsteen’s new studio album, a collection of fifteen soul music greats titled Only The Strong Survive, will be released by Columbia Records on November 11. Featuring lead vocals by Springsteen, Only The Strong Survive celebrates soul music gems from the legendary catalogues of Motown, Gamble and Huff, Stax and many more. This 21st studio album from Bruce Springsteen will also feature guest vocals by Sam Moore, as well as contributions from The E Street Horns, full string arrangements by Rob Mathes, and backing vocals by Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Michelle Moore, Curtis King Jr., Dennis Collins and Fonzi Thornton.
Live Vault
I november 2014 ble den første av «offisielle bootlegs» utgitt i serien som fikk navnet "Bruce Springsteen Archives". Senere har navnet blitt endret til "Live Vault, The Live Archives".
Dette er en pågående samling med offisielle live album fra Springsteens karriere og kan kjøpes gjennom nettsiden brucespringsteen.net, enten via digital nedlastning eller CD.
En av de 88 utgivelsene som er å finne i arkivet
Ideen til "Bruce Springsteen Archives" kom etter at opptak fra hver av konsertene under "High Hopes" turneen i 2014 ble utgitt.
Flere av konsertene, som nå er å finne under denne samlingen, har tidligere blitt utgitt på Bootlegs, men da i veldig varierende kvalitet.
Per dags dato er 88 utgivelser tilgjengelig og opptakene spenner seg fra konserten i The Roxy Theater i Hollywood i 1975 og frem til konserten i Leeds i 2013, som var en del av "Wrecking Ball" turneen.
I år har det blitt utgitt 14 konsertopptak i "Live Vault, The Live Archives" serien.
Se oversikt over samtlige utgivelser her.
Årets utgivelser:
Da ønsker jeg å avslutte årets siste innlegg på Badlandso med å ønske hver og en av dere et riktig godt nytt år et riktig godt Bruce år. "I'll meet you further on up the road"
25. desember 2022. Live Vaults, The Live Archives (nr. 88)
Like sikkert som vi får en ny "Live Vault" utgivelse hver måned, med noen få unntak, får vi også en juleoverraskelse hvert år. Ved hver jul, siden 2014, har vi fått en ekstra "Live Vault" utgivelse. Disse utgivelsen har kommet rundt julaften og noen har truffet akkurat på datoen.
Den 88. i rekken er fra "Reunion Tour"
Årets julegave er hentet fra "Reunion turneen", som inneholdt 133 konserter og som også førte Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band til Valle Hovin.
Turneen startet i Europa, nærmere bestemt i Barcelona den 9. april, og avsluttet med ti konserter i Madison Square Garden, hvorav den siste ble spilt den 1. juli 2000. Europaturneen ble avsluttet på Valle Hovin, omtrent et år tidligere, i Oslo den 27. juni i 1999.
Turneen var den første med "The E Street Band" siden "Tunnel Of Love Express Tour" i 1988 og ble en enorm suksess.
Little Steven var tilbake i bandet, som han forlot i forkant av "Born In The USA" turneen i 1984. Sammen med Bruce og Nils Lofgren, dannet de en sterk gitar-trio som endret litt av lydbildet fra tidligere E Street konserter.
Dagens utgivelse er hentet fra Continental Airlines Arena - East Rutherford, NJ den 18. juli 1999 og er den 88. i rekken av "Live Vault" utgivelsen. Dette er den 7. konserten fra denne Reunion-turneen som er utgitt i serien.
Konserten på Continental Airlines Arena var den andre av i alt 15 konserter på rad, på denne arenaen, hvor samtlige var utsolgte. Dette er det lengste Bruce Springsteen har spilt på samme sted etter hverandre, om man ser bort fra Broadway forestillingene.
Samtlige utgivelser fra denne turneen
Låtene som ble spilt under konserten I Wanna Be With You / Prove It All Night / Two Hearts / Trapped / Darlington County / Factory / The River / Youngstown / Murder Incorporated / Badlands / Out In The Street / Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out / Loose Ends / Sherry Darling / Working On The Highway / The Ghost Of Tom Joad / Jungleland / Light Of Day / Freehold / Stand On It / Hungry Heart / Bobby Jean / Born To Run / Thunder Road / If I Should Fall Behind / Land Of Hope And Dreams
"Stand On It" (18/7-99)
For første gang i USA ble "I Wanna Be With You" and "Loose Ends" fremført under en konsert.
Under konserten ble det også turnepremiere på "Trapped".
"Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" inneholder utdrag av "It's All Right", "Move On Up", "Red Headed Woman" og "Rumble Doll", samt et utdrag av "The Godfather Love Theme" og "Them Changes" av Little Steven og Garry Tallent under presentasjonen av bandmedlemmene.
"Light Of Day" inneholder utdrag av "I Hear A Train", "I've Been Everywhere" og "Peter Gunn Theme".
"Freehold" ble for aller første gang fremført med The E Street Band under en konsert.
Fra Springsteens hjemmeside: The earliest Reunion tour performance yet to appear in the Live Archive series, E. Rutherford 7/18/99 captures Bruce and the E Street Band recommitting to their mission at the second show of a 15-night homecoming run. The set opens with beloved outtake "I Wanna Be With You" and features more Tracks rarities ("Loose End," "Stand On It), a summer-season outing for "Sherry Darling," powerful performances of "Murder Incorporated," "Youngstown" and "Jungleland," plus "Freehold," Springsteen's hilariously candid confessional about growing up in New Jersey.
Hele 15 konserter ble utsolgt på Continental Airlines Arena
Les Eric Flannigan's ord om konserten her.
Oversikt over "Live Vault" utgivelsen
24. desember 2022 God Jul til dere alle
Jeg vil med dette ønske dere alle en riktig God Jul.
"Blue Christmas" er en julesang skrevet av Billy Hayes og Jay W. Johnson og ble for første gang spilt inn av Doye O'Dell i 1948. Låten er nok likevel mest kjent fremført av Elvis Presley som hadde kjempe-suksess med låten i både 1957 og 1968.
Bruce Springsteens versjon er hentet fra den første av de to julekonsertene i Convention Hall i Asbury Park, som ble gjennomført før julen i 2000. Opptaket er hentet fra den 17. desember, mens den andre konserten ble avholdt dagen etter.
Bruce og Patti under den første julekonserten i 2000
Under julekonsertene i Asbury Park, som ble kalt for "Holiday Show", var også flere artister med og spilte. Ved siden av Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, var også disse med: Bobby Bandiera, Lisa Lowell; Ed Manion, The Max Weinberg 7, Mike Spengler, Soozie Tyrell, John Landau og Southside Johnny.
Bruce Springsteens versjon av "Blue Christmas" ble fremført i bluegrass arrangement.
En mer rocka versjon ble fremført under den "lukkede" konserten i "The Carousel", i Asbury Park i 2010. Denne kan sees her. Denne minikonserten ble senere gitt ut offisielt.
Juleklippene i videoen er hentet fra forskjellige steder på Jevnaker. De mest fremtredende er fra Hadeland Glassverk og hovedgata i Jevnaker.
Blue Christmas
Video: Rune
Denne julehilsningen, fra Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, er hentet fra deres besøk hos radiostasjonen WHFS-FM og er spilt inn en uke før konserten på Long Island, som er årets juleutgivelse.
Merry Christmas
18. desember 2022 Konsertopptak fra «2023 Tour»
Ikke overraskende blir det også under «2023 Tour» mulighet til å kjøpe liveopptak fra samtlige konserter. Disse vil bli gitt ut som MP3 opptak, FLAC/ALAC (som er uten kvalitets tap), samt man kon også kjøpe opptakene på CD. HD format vil også være tilgjengelig.
Med andre ord, er dette det samme konseptet som man har blitt vant med under utgivelsene av «Live Vault» serien, som inneholder 87 opptak (Les mer om denne her).
Også under denne turneen kan man kjøpe liveopptak
Siden «High Hopes» turneen i 2014, som for øvrig ikke kom innom Europa, har hver konsert blitt gitt ut av Springsteen konsernet.
Ved siden av nevnte turne, innebefatter også dette «The River Tour», som pågikk fra 2016-2017.
Man kan allerede nå forhåndskjøpe opptak fra de 31 konserten i USA og de 31 konsertene i Europa.
Klikk på bildene for å komme til bestillingen.
10. desember 2022. Raina Douris - "World Cafe" Bruce ble nylig intervjuet hjemme på Stone Hill Farm i Colts Neck, NJ av Raina Douris, som er en prisvinnende radiovert for programmet "World Cafe".
Dette er første gang Bruce Springsteen er gjest i "World Cafe", som er et kjent program i radiostasjonen CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
Dette er en av de beste intervjuene som er gjort med Bruce, hvor han forteller om det nye albumet - og er absolutt verdt å få med seg.
Redigert utgave av intervjuet. Raina Douris: It sounds like you were having so much fun on this record.
Bruce Springsteen: Yeah, the pressure of having to write everything wasn't there — that's always the toughest thing when it comes to recording, you know? And also the pressure of really the production and playing on it on every song. I removed all of that and I said, 'I'm going to make a record where I just sing and I focus all my energies on the vocals.' That was something I'd never done, and it was a lot of fun to do. I just had a great time doing it.
"Only the Strong Survive" and "Hey, Western Union Man" are both originally from the same Jerry Butler album, The Iceman Cometh, which was recorded in Philly at Sigma Sound in 1968. That's the only album that you chose two songs from. Why did that album have such an impact?
I got into Jerry Butler late, you know, and really on this record. John Landau was my manager and an executive producer. He suggested "Hey Western Union Man," which I'd never heard. I listened to it and said, 'Well, it's kind of complicated,' but I gave it a shot. You know, ended up being a lot of fun.
Springsteens 21. studio-album
Originally, the record was called Soul Days, and from then, I changed the title to Nightshift. I said, 'Now, the record should be titled Night Shift, right?' And then somewhere in there I said, "Only the Strong Survive." Maybe I'll cut "Only the Strong Survive" for the next volume of something like this. And I said, 'Gee, that's a great title. We should cut it now.' So I went in. It was the last thing we cut, and that ended up being our title. I ended up being a huge Jerry Butler fan. I've already cut several other of the songs from that album.
You mentioned that you just wanted to sing on this record. Why was soul and R&B the right genre for you to focus on singing?
The greatest vocal music, for me, is gospel music. There's just a freedom, spirituality and intensity in gospel music that you find watered down in other places. Then soul, of course all those frontmen came from the church, which is why it was a unique place in time. Those singers will never come again. It was just a culturally unique moment.
You have Sam Moore coming out of the church. You have Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers coming out of the church. Of course, Aretha. So that was just a natural place. I said, 'I want to go where the great singers are.' Well, the great singers are in soul music, for one place, and my attitude was like, 'These are songs that should be a part of the American Songbook — like Gershwin and Cole Porter.' These songs stand the test of time. They are 50 years old already. They're still great.
Only The Strong Survive
The only other artist you have two songs from on this album is Levi Stubbs, lead singer of the Four Tops. You bookended it with one from 1967, "7 Rooms of Gloom," and one from 1981, "When She Was My Girl," which are two very distinct periods of the Four Tops.
"When She Way My Girl" was post-Motown, so the production and everything sounds quite current. And Levi was just one of the greatest singers of all time. That's all there is to it.
My luck is that I don't have the same quality of voice, but I have the same range that Levi has and that David Ruffin had. Basically, we're comfortable within the same range. So, for most of these songs, I don't change the key on them or anything; I sing them in the same keys they were recorded. These guys are my masters. They're my mentors. They're my maestros. From the start, I had to go, 'Well, I'm just doing this for fun because there's no way you're going to sing like David Ruffin.' But if I can find my place within these songs, I can make something fun, enjoyable and good out of it. That was my approach.
When "7 Rooms of Gloom" came out in 1967, you would have been about 18. Then, when "When She Was My Girl" came out, you were in your early 30s. What was it about Levi's voice that called to you when you were 18 and still was able to call to you at a different stage in your life? Why did it resonate with you?
Levi had a rock voice. In all of Motown, his was the voice that sounded the most rock. It was harsh. It was desperate. He was the most the most desperate singer you've ever heard.
If you listen to all of the Four Tops material, they're all about desperation: "7 Rooms of Gloom," "Shake Me, Wake Me" and "Standing In The Shadows Of Love." It's all about somebody out on the edge, so it pushes them towards a rock edge almost. So, Levi was always one of my favorite singers, the pure desperation and intensity in his voice.
He let some of that go on "When She Was My Girl," and you've got the first hints of a light disco, which I really enjoyed singing over. But he was still singing great. Just him and David Ruffin are two of my all time favorites.
You don't really mess with the arrangements of these songs. You're pretty faithful all the way through to the originals. I'm guessing that was intentional. Why did you want to go?
I wasn't trying to reinvent the wheel. My idea was this is classic stuff, right down to the arrangements, the string parts, the horn parts, the choral parts, and the rhythm section. Our idea was not that we were going to try and sonically enhance all of these records but stick very close to the original arrangements. That was what we did.
Soul Days
You worked with Sam Moore of soul duo Sam & Dave on the record, and he sings on a couple of the songs with you. I know you actually had a chance to see Sam & Dave when they were still together back in the 1970s at the Fast Lane in Asbury Park. What do you remember from that show? Can you take us back there?
The main thing I remember is I cried. I remember they brought me to tears. They were so good. This was late in the day and late in their career. They weren't getting along very well. I got to meet them backstage somehow. I hit it off with Sam a little bit, but I was just kind of starting to come up myself, and if there was 100 people in the place, I'd be surprised. Sam and Dave in their glory. They sang incredibly to 100 people in Asbury Park. I stood in the back of the room, and I was I was in tears because I said, 'I can't believe this place isn't jammed.' I was hearing some of the greatest American music being played in the United States on that night.
I knew I was at that spot at that time, and I was just heartbroken that there weren't more people there sharing it. They were they were incredible to the end. I heard them there. I heard them at the Satellite Lounge in Fort Dix. Unbelievable. Little Stevie and I used to follow them around.
So you said you would have been sort of just starting out around the time you saw Sam & Dave in Asbury Park. You're playing shows yourself. What lessons were you learning from seeing soul and R&B acts like that perform?
How to lead a band, for one. How to put on a show. The rock acts tried to play it cool all the time. You had to be cool. No, the soul acts came to set you on fire. They were a manifestation of heat, and I liked that more than the cool. I said, 'I'm not cool. I'm more comfortable in that heat.' So I just watched Sam. Sam led the band incredibly. He knew how to put on a show. He knew how to wire the audience until they were going insane. He sweat his clothes completely through. They were my my ideal of what it means to put on a show. I said, 'That's that's where I'm going.'
"Dont Play That Song"
Sam is on this new album. He also sang harmony on a couple of songs on your 1982 album, Human Touch. How did you go from a kid in the crowd meeting him for a minute at the Fast Lane to actually working with Sam for one day?
Well, when I was 40, I had the nerve to call him and ask him if he'd sing with me on a couple of the songs I had for Human Touch. He said, 'Sure.' He came out, and he sang. His voice was incredible, of course. We've been friends for about 30 years.
Now, I feel like at this point in your career, people might be intimidated to sing with you. Was there any time where you were intimidated to sing with somebody like that?
All the time, you know. I'm always very self-conscious about my voice. I've been asked in the past to sing with a variety of different well-known vocalists. Very often I'll say no. I'll say, 'I have no business whatsoever singing on a mic next to you.' I will just come out and tell them why I'm going to say no, and I've done that on on several occasions.
We're going to play "Soul Days" next. Before we hear it, why do you love this song?
There was a song I stumbled on. You go on iTunes and you see you see "Drift Away" at No. 1. No. 2, "Soul Days." What's "Soul Days?" I've never heard of that. All right. Boom. I put it on. Oh, it's a great narrative.
It's a beautifully written narrative on "Soul Days." It's about somebody's love for soul music, you know? I said, 'I got to cut this and see how it comes out.' Dobie Gray had a beautiful version of it, but I really enjoyed cutting it. It almost sounds like it could have been one of my tunes. Great narrative, great story.
Rock and soul have always been in your musical DNA. How do rock and soul connect? What is their common thread?
There are just places where they cross over. The intensity. Where it connected for us was soul music was very popular along the shore. You had Top 40 bands who came in and made their living. Full horn section came in the summertime along the shore, played nothing but soul music. So growing up, we were exposed to a lot of soul music and rock music, and it became a very natural. If you had a set where you didn't play any soul music, it was almost impossible. You couldn't survive on Saturday night. People wanted to hear "Hold On, I'm Comin'." They wanted to hear "Midnight Hour." They wanted to hear "Mustang Sally."
You had to play those songs if you were a rock band. You had to play all these things, you know? So to me, there was always a connection. Of course, everyone knew the greatest singers were the soul singers, and they also had great songs. The E Street Band was always a rock and soul band. We're not really a rock and roll band. We're not really a rock band. We're kind of a rock and soul band.
You've spent much of your career writing about the condition of working class people through your lens and your upbringing. You've also made music like your album Western Stars a while back that addresses and explores the mythology of the American West and the image of the cowboy in the desert, the lonely traveler and the vastness. Now you've released an album of soul music, which is also an American art form. Where does it fit in for you in the American story?
Well, I didn't start with a thematic point of view on the record. I just said I want to make some joyful music. My records are very often, there's usually a theme of some sort that you have to deal with if you want to or wrestle with.
In this case, I said, 'I'm just going to make music that I love.' Of course, soul music is an inherent part of the American music scene. It's just forever. Its influence and its roots are steeped in American culture. That goes without saying. But I took the most simple approach I've ever taken to making records — I wanted to sing what sounded good, record what sounded good, record some great songs that other people had written. That was my approach.
"Nightshift"
I want to close things out today with your take on the Commodores song "Night Shift." They released it in January 1985, right when you were on your massive Born in the USA tour, blowing up and becoming a star. Did you become a fan of that song in real time when it first came out, or did you come to it later?
When it came out, I said, 'Oh, this is a thing of beauty,' you know? All over the years, I stayed in touch with that song. I had a little bar that used to play it pretty regularly and I go in and sit and it was always a song that could reduce me to tears. It's just a wonderfully, wonderfully written narrative.
The way that it's sung, it turns Marvin Gaye's name and Jackie Wilson's name into this spiritual incantation almost. The way the song opens up with "Marvin." That's all you need. The song, it's already on its way. There's just something about the way the singer says those names that is essential and spiritual. Then, the whole song falls in place beautifully. It's an amazing piece of writing. It was a gorgeous record. All I did was I stripped some of the '80s sounds off it and turned it into little more of a direct soul ballad. It's perhaps my favorite thing on the record.
2. desember 2022. Live Vaults, The Live Archives (nr. 87)
Månedens utgivelse er hentet fra "Magic turneen", som totalt inneholdt 100 konserter. Turneen startet i Hartford den 2. oktober i 2007 og ble avsluttet i Milwaukee den 30. august. Dagens konsertutgivelse er hentet fra Sommet Center i Nashville, Tennessee, den 21. august 2008.
Månedens konsertopptak er hentet fra Tennessee 21/8-08
Dette er den sjette utgivelsen fra Magic turneen og konserten var den tredje siste på turneen.
De fem andre er hentet fra Boston (19/11-07), Indianapolis (20/3-08), Tampa (22/4-08), Greensboro (28/4-08) og St. Louis (23/8-08).
Samtlige utgivelser fra denne turneen
Låtene som ble spilt under konserten:
Out In The Street / Radio Nowhere / No Surrender / Lonesome Day / Spirit In The Night / Good Rockin' Tonight / Growin' Up / I'm Goin' Down / Held Up Without A Gun / Loose Ends / Youngstown / Murder Incorporated / Mona - She's The One / The Promised Land / Mary's Place / I Walk The Line - I'm On Fire / The Rising / Last To Die / Long Walk Home / Badlands / Girls In Their Summer Clothes / Thunder Road / Born To Run / I Fought The Law / Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (med Dave Bielanko) / American Land / Dancing In The Dark
Nils og Bruce under konserten i Tennessee (21/8-08)
Konserten varte i ca. to timer og femti minutter.
Under lydsjekken ble "Let The Good Times Roll” spilt.
Konserten inneholdt mange interessante låtvalg. Flere av låtene under konsertene på Magic turneen ble hentet fra Springsteens tidligere plater. Også flere coverlåter, som Springsteen spilte tidlig i karrieren, fikk igjen plass på spillelistene.
"Good Rockin' Tonight" 21/8-08
"Good Rockin' Tonight" var den første av i alt fire turnepremierer. Denne ble sist fremført i Oakland, oktober 1980.
I ekstranumrene ble den siste premierelåten fremført. Denne var "I Fought The Law". Mellom disse to låtene ble det også spilt to mini-medley låter, med innslag av to nye premierer. Først ut av disse var "Mona" i "She's the One", mens den andre var "I Walk The Line" i "I'm on Fire".
Andre låter som også utmerket seg på "sjeldenhets-skalaen", var "Held Up Without a Gun" og "Loose Ends".
Under låten "Mary's Place" ble også Curtis Mayfield’s "The Monkey Time" fremført. Under låten "Rosalita" dukket Marah's Dave Bielanko opp som gjesteartist.
En av ønskelåtene under konserten
Fra Springsteens hjemmeside
Bruce and the band take Music City on a memorable 27-song ride in the final week of the Magic tour. The 8/21/08 set features tour premieres of "Good Rockin' Tonight" (not played in 28 years), "I Walk The Line" (as a unique lead-in to "I'm On Fire"), "I Fought The Law," and the first taste of "Mona" into "She's The One" since the original River tour. Nashville also distills rare Magic-tour outings for "I'm Goin' Down," "Held Up Without A Gun" (played for only the fourth time ever), "Growin' Up" and River outtake "Loose End."
