Speed of Life

by Gregg Chadwick "Wrecking Ball sounds like it's quite possibly Bruce’s best album in a quarter century, for what my opinion's worth. It's bracing and subversive and furious and sonically fearless. It's going to give voice to a generation. Certainly to an era. In that regard I'd put it shoulder to shoulder with Born to Run, Highway 61 Revisited, Exile on Main Street, London Calling, and American Idiot. Indelible. I hate hyperbole, but I've got to say I stand in awe of Bruce's ability to make music this angry and relevant and authentic at any stage of his career, never mind 40 years on. Thank God for him." -Novelist Dennis Lehane Bruce Springsteen's new album, Wrecking Ball (Listen to the full album streaming here) , was officially released in Europe and Australia today and will make its debut in the U.S.tomorrow - March 6, 2012. Over the past two weeks I have been writing song by song reviews of the album and have found that readers f...

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 ,  W...