American Songwriter

The 1970s Classic Country Song Bruce Springsteen Loved, and Covered

For all his genre-bending, Bruce Springsteen‘s identity is firmly rooted in rock. It’s impossible to consider him as anything else. Springsteen hasn’t contested this identity, but he has made it clear that rock isn’t his only love. On several ...
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Steel Mill churchs out a roomful of good music at Monmouth (1970)

WEST LONG BRANCH – There are times when everything works out just right, when all the bits and pieces fit together — and take you with them — into the perfect thing they form. It happens in almost any aspect of life you can think of, from fixing ...
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Before he was a star, former APP writer saw Bruce Springsteen's potential (1996)

"From '69 to '70, there was a woman at the Asbury Park Press named Joan Pikula ... and she wrote quite a bit about Steel Mill," Springsteen told Press music writer Kelly-Jane Cotter last week, recalling one of his early bands. "But that was all the ...
American Songwriter

4 Masterpiece Classic Rock Albums From the 1970s That Begin and End Perfectly

If you want an album to be a masterpiece, you have to make sure it starts and ends just right. These 1970s classics easily cleared that hurdle.
The Morning Sun

Column: Bruce and the Black Dog boogie

You didn’t “have to be there” in the 1970s and early 1980s to experience the rush of Bruce Springsteen’s music. New Jersey’s favorite son left everything on the vinyl and added even more to his carefully crafted yet spontaneous-sounding songs in ...
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Steel Mill concert in Middletown is the focus of a town committee meeting (1970)

A Fair Haven couple who were filming the concert are circulating a petition asking the Township Committee to investigate police tactics in breaking up the show. Chief McCarthy, who was injured in the disturbance, on stage, contends that more than 90 ...