Speed of Life

by Gregg Chadwick Land of Hope and Dreams (Song by Song Review of Bruce Springsteen's New Album - Wrecking Ball) People get ready, there's a train a-comin' You don't need no baggage, you just get on board All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin' Don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord - Curtis Mayfield, People Get Ready Central Railroad of New Jersey Steam 4-6-2, Jersey City, New Jersey, February 06, 1954  My grandfather on my mother's side spent his working life as a train engineer on the Jersey Central Line. That itself sounds like a Springsteen lyric and explains part of my great love for  Land of Hope and Dreams . ( Listen Here ) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band first performed the song during the reunion tour in 1999, a live version was released on   Live in New York City in 2001  and also   on  The Essential Bruce Springsteen  in 2003.   ...

John Legend Plays Springsteen's Dancing In The Dark on Jimmy Fallon February 29, 2012

by Gregg Chadwick Rocky Ground (Song by Song Review of Bruce Springsteen's New Album - Wrecking Ball)  ''The verses are the blues, the chorus is the gospel." - Bruce Springsteen in Conversation With Jon Pareles in The New York Times July 14, 2002 Gregg Chadwick The Luminist 12"x12" oil on linen 2010  As if reaching out from the past into the present, Bruce Springsteen's song Rocky Ground (Listen Here)  opens with a   ghostly voice calling out the refrain "I'm a soldier." This verbal fragment was culled from a historical performance of the Church of God in Christ Congregation's rendition of   I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord ,  recorded by musical historian Alan Lomax in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1942*.  The song then shifts to the chorus, sung by the gospel singer Michelle Moore: We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We've been travel...