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E Street Shuffle

The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

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E Street Shuffle

Auteur(s): Clinton Heylin
Narrateur(s): Dan John Miller
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Before he was the swaggering, stadium-packing megastar, Bruce Springsteen was a brooding introvert, desperate to strike a balance between his nuanced songwriting and the heft of his backing band. Clinton Heylin's revelatory biography, E Street Shuffle, chronicles the evolution and influence of Springsteen's E Street Band as they rose from blue-collar New Jersey to the heights of rock stardom.

The band's players - most notably saxophonist Clarence "Big Man" Clemons, guitarist "Little" Stevie Van Zandt, and drummer Max Weinberg - became Springsteen's comrades in concert, helping him find the elusive sound and sonic punch that highlighted The Boss's most creative period, including Darkness on the Edge of Town, Born to Run, and Born in the USA. Fans will also learn another side of Springsteen, one punctuated with his clashes with studio executives seeking a commercially viable, radio-friendly album, and his temporary disbanding of the E Street Band to pursue projects like the eerie acoustic of Nebraska.

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Springsteen's debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, drawing on interviews and access to new recordings and shows, Heylin paints a bold picture of The Boss.

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The book covers Bruce and the E Street Band's careers through 1987 in great detail and spends only a few short minutes covering the reunions since then. The first third of the book, the author spends praising and dissecting the process of becoming the force of nature into which Bruce and the E Street Band developed. However, by the second third, the author also seems to lose his appreciation for and material about which to write and begins to seemingly dissect every single take of every single recording Bruce ever made, both with and without the band. It's clear by the end of the book, that he has an extreme distaste for Bruce, which had at first began as a few well placed jibes and now turned into full on criticism about every aspect of his life, music and professional decisions. In fact, by the time the author gets to Born in the USA, he will only mention the song by its title, and derisively refers to the album only by the abbreviated term, BIT USA. Not flattering, it begins to feel like quite a bit of whining by a disillusioned fan. If you can get past the authors seemingly petulant derision through the last chapters and listen to the history about it instead, it does have a decent amount to offer, but if you're a fan of Bruce for anything other than his early albums, this will not likely please you.

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