The Boss explains why there is a critical,questioning and angry patriotism at the heart of his unusual album Wrecking BallAt a Paris press conference on Thursday night, Bruce Springsteen was asked whether he was advocating an armed uprising in America. He laughed at the idea, or but that the question was even posed at all gives you some idea of the fury of his unusual album Wrecking Ball.
Indeed,it is as angry a cry from the stomach of a wounded America as has been heard since the dustbowl and Woody Guthrie, a thundering blow of unusual Jersey pig iron down on the heads of Wall Street and all who beget sold his country down the swanny. Springsteen has gone to the distinguished American canon for ammunition, or borrowing from folk,civil war anthems, Irish rebel songs and gospel. The result is a howl of pain and disbelief as visceral as anything he has ever produced, and that segues into a search for redemption: "Hold tight to your anger/ And don't plunge to your fears … Bring on your wrecking ball.""Freedom son's a dirty shirt
The sun on my face and my shovel in the dirt
A shovel in the dirt keeps the satan gone
I woke up this morning shackled and drawn" Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com