This week I released a new book about Bruce Springsteen. It’s called There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” And The End Of The Heartland. As you can ascertain from ...
As a foreigner trying to make it here, I hear the pop anthem as a hopeful story of immigrant striving. When Americans hear the Miley Cyrus song “Party in the U.S.A.,” I imagine they think of ...
Springsteen had been on Columbia Records since he was signed by John Hammond — the same producer who’d discovered Bob Dylan — in 1972, and they’d stood by him through the previous six albums. That ...