We Are Alive
by Gregg Chadwick We Are Alive (Song by Song Review of Bruce Springsteen's New Album - Wrecking Ball) "Also, those are voices from history and other sides of the grave. If you listen to the record, I use a lot of folk music. There’s some Civil War music. There’s gospel music. There are ’30s horns in “Jack of All Trades.” That’s the way I used the music — the idea was that the music was going to contextualize historically that this has happened before: it happened in the 1970s, it happened in the ’30s, it happened in the 1800s… it’s cyclical. Over, and over, and over, and over again. So I try to pick up some of the continuity and the historical resonance through the music." -Bruce Springsteen, Théatre Marigny press conference , Paris, February 2012 Gregg Chadwick Ciudad de la Memoria 38"x38" oil on linen 2005 Michael and Renee Hertzberg Collection, Beverly Hills The final track on Wrecking Ball , We Are Alive ( Lis...