Bruce Springsteen's career has been covered many times over, yet many of the complexities and apparent contradictions of his music remain unresolved. Rob Kirkpatrick provides a comprehensive and coherent look at the work of this thoroughly complex and persistently captivating artist. After a brief biographical treatment, Kirkpatrick considers all of Springsteen's significant albums in chronological order. These include "Born to Run, " which was voted the most popular album of all time in a recently published Zagat survey; "Born in the U.S.A., " which sold more than 20 million copies; and...
Bruce Springsteen's career has been covered many times over, yet many of the complexities and apparent contradictions of his music remain unresolve...
The definitive look at The Boss and how his music has both shaped and confronted American mythology
Emerging on the music scene with 1973's "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.," Bruce Springsteen was heralded as "the future of rock and roll," and since then his influence and popularity have exploded. Rob Kirkpatrick's Magic in the Night uses Springsteen's biography as a lens through which listeners can reevaluate his music as he morphs from "the next Bob Dylan" to a Reagan-era pop culture icon, and again to today's populist voice, discussing each album in chronological order....
The definitive look at The Boss and how his music has both shaped and confronted American mythology
A three-time All-Star, Cecil Travis (1913-2006) was well on his way to a Hall of Fame career when he was drafted for World War II in 1941. When he returned to the game in 1945, after three and a half years in the army, Travis was no longer the dominant player he had been. In the three seasons that followed-the last of his career-only once did Travis play in more than seventy-five games, and his offensive numbers plummeted. Yet his prewar accomplishments were such that he finished his twelve-year career with a .314 batting average, and baseball maven Bill James put Travis atop his list of...
A three-time All-Star, Cecil Travis (1913-2006) was well on his way to a Hall of Fame career when he was drafted for World War II in 1941. When he ret...
