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    Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    Holy mother of God, this is good.

    Reading mostly raving reviews, let me know your thoughts.

    Never thought I would like Burt Bacharach/early 70s Glen Campbell mixed with Springsteen, but man, this is a gorgeous, gorgeous record.

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    I have to sit with it for awhile, but I think this will go down as one of his best, which is astonishing at his age. Tour should be fun.
    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    Quote Originally Posted by Dom Heffner View Post
    Holy mother of God, this is good.

    Reading mostly raving reviews, let me know your thoughts.

    Never thought I would like Burt Bacharach/early 70s Glen Campbell mixed with Springsteen, but man, this is a gorgeous, gorgeous record.
    Brice Springsteen?

    It is wonderful. Really wonderful. It is also better as a total piece than the songs in isolation. I was a little worried as the opening songs is one of the weaker ones but it just soaks in. I really find Drive Fast, Sundown and Moonlight Motel to be really powerful emotionally. He has an amazing ability to write some devastating lyrics. I had to take a break from it after a full listen through. Wonderfully sound to it too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redsfaithful View Post
    I have to sit with it for awhile, but I think this will go down as one of his best, which is astonishing at his age. Tour should be fun.
    Except there is no plan to tour at this point. Last pronouncement was that he will record with E Street in the fall and tour with that album next year.

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    Quote Originally Posted by klw View Post
    Brice Springsteen?
    You may know him better as The Bess.
    Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    Quote Originally Posted by WrongVerb View Post
    You may know him better as The Bess.
    His biggest hit is "Bort in the U.S.A."

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    Quote Originally Posted by WrongVerb View Post
    You may know him better as The Bess.
    Too bad his name wasn't Milvin.

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    Quote Originally Posted by klw View Post
    Except there is no plan to tour at this point. Last pronouncement was that he will record with E Street in the fall and tour with that album next year.
    Just saw that, bummer! Would have liked to see this album live.
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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    Quote Originally Posted by Redsfaithful View Post
    Just saw that, bummer! Would have liked to see this album live.
    He puts on the best live show I've ever seen. His tour with Tom Morello as part of the band was epic.

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    I’m thinking of going as Austin Brice Springsteen next Halloween.
    Hoping to change my username to 75769024

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    Got a chance to listen to the entire album today. I love it. His best album in quite awhile.

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    It's interesting, I'm going to have to give it a few more listens. My Bruce mania is the first five albums which I adore, everything after that is always this and that... but that falls on me.

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    Quote Originally Posted by westofyou View Post
    It's interesting, I'm going to have to give it a few more listens. My Bruce mania is the first five albums which I adore, everything after that is always this and that... but that falls on me.
    This is pretty much where I am, though I would include Nebraska among his best, and leave out The River (should have been a single album). All of them are a class above the standard, words and music that touch your soul and last a lifetime.

    Everything after that is mostly decent, very listenable, but not memorable, though with a few gems hidden in there. This last one is one of his better ones from that second group, but it’s nothing like anything from that first group.

    I will add that he wrote that first group when he was miserable, and depressed, then he met his current wife Patti, started to become happy, and the writing was all downhill after that, lol.
    Hoping to change my username to 75769024

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    Quote Originally Posted by 757690 View Post
    This is pretty much where I am, though I would include Nebraska among his best, and leave out The River (should have been a single album). All of them are a class above the standard, words and music that touch your soul and last a lifetime.

    Everything after that is mostly decent, very listenable, but not memorable, though with a few gems hidden in there. This last one is one of his better ones from that second group, but it’s nothing like anything from that first group.

    I will add that he wrote that first group when he was miserable, and depressed, then he met his current wife Patti, started to become happy, and the writing was all downhill after that, lol.
    unhappy Springsteen is always better Springsteen. Then you get albums like The Rising which is very underrated and somehow sad and joyous at the same time.

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    Great album.

    When it’s all said and done I don’t know who can top his body of work.

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    Re: Brice Springsteen Western Stars Release

    What a great 1:57


    Came into town with a pocketful of songs
    I made the rounds
    But I didn't last long

    Now I'm out on this highway
    With a bone-cold chill
    Somewhere north of Nashville
    I lie awake in the middle of the night
    Makin' a list of things that I didn't do right
    With you at the top of a long page filled
    Here, somewhere north of Nashville
    For the deal I made, the price was strong
    I traded you for this song

    We woke each morning with hearts filled
    Bluebird of love on the windowsill
    Now the heart's unsteady, and the night is still
    All I've got's this melody, and time to kill
    Here, somewhere north of Nashville
    Here, somewhere north of Nashville
    Here, somewhere north of Nashville

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