Music Reviews: An Anthology of Beatles Covers, Ward Hayden Interprets Springsteen, and a Record about Records Another Box of Beatles Covers Particularly during the years when the Fab Four dominated the charts, countless artists from a wide variety of genres couldn’t resist jumping on the band’s wagon. The new With a Little Help from My […]
Ward Hayden and Greg Hall of Ward Hayden & The Outliers Talk Reimagining Springsteen with Little By Little and Piece By Piece Ward Hayden & The Outliers are currently on tour in Europe, having released their album Piece By Piece in late October, following an April 2025 release of its sister album, Little By Little. […]
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Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska ’82,’ plus Diane Hubka, the Kasambwe Brothers, and Terry Klein Hot on the heels of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, the movie about the making of 1982’s Nebraska, comes a greatly expanded edition of that LP. Called Nebraska ’82, this release includes four CDs and a Blu-ray disc. Much of it constitutes […]
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, plus Pavlov’s Dog and the Dream Syndicate Like the recent A Complete Unknown, which limns only the first chapter of Bob Dylan’s career, a new film about Bruce Springsteen doesn’t try to tell its subject’s entire life story. Instead, it zeroes in on one pivotal period, which it uses to […]
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Bruce Springsteen Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition It’s hard to keep a secret in 2025 – between camera phones, social media, and our own general sense of “we need to know everything NOW,” nearly every attempt to squirrel something away eventually fails. But it wasn’t always that way. In the process of recording his landmark 1982 […]
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Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run, plus Reggae from the Mighty Rootsmen and the Kingston Lions Several albums in Bruce Springsteen’s discography have proven particularly significant, including 1982’s Nebraska, which showcased a dramatic reversion to unadorned folk, and 1984’s Born in the U.S.A., which turned him into a global superstar. But the […]
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50th Anniversary of Born to Run Born to Run is my all-time favorite album. Sure, there are days where I might answer Southeastern, because it’s more directly linked to me becoming a music writer (and because “Elephant” hits a wee bit too close to home). But Springsteen’s third record, now 50 (FIFTY!) years old, has […]
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When it comes to mining the vaults, the Boss still has a way to go to catch up to the Bard. Bob Dylan has offered a ton of archival releases, including the Bootleg Series, which now encompasses nearly 60 CDs. Bruce Springsteen is headed in the same direction as Dylan, though, having issued lots of […]
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Music Reviews: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concerts, plus Bluegrass from Merle Travis, Mac Wiseman & Joe Maphis If you weren’t lucky enough to be in the audience for the 25th-anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concerts on Oct. 29 and 30, 2009, you could still witness them via the Blu-ray of the […]
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Top 25 Albums for AMA’s 25th Anniversary Year 25 years ago, spurred by conversations that took place at South by Southwest in Austin, the Americana Music Association became a reality. In September 2000, the nascent organization held its first conference in Nashville. Two years later, the Americana Honors and Awards came into being. As the […]
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