Flipping through USA TODAY, my eye was caught by this photograph of Bruce Springsteen by Danny Clinch. It’s been interesting to watch Springsteen age both as a musician and a performer because he’s managed, not unsurprisingly given his integrity and his genius, to remain his own person. Sartorially and cosmetically he’s made adjustments – the only place I’ve ever seen him in the flesh other than at concerts is at Barneys – but thank goodness he’s refrained from dyeing his hair, getting a face lift, etc.. I particularly liked the mood this picture caught and the fact that while Springsteen isn’t trying to look young, he’s still cool.
Then there was an unexpected bonus! The article promised that if you clicked through to the paper’s website you would see the Boss’s playlist. Unfortunately the link they gave didn’t work, but after much digging and more hard work I found it. So for all Bruce Springsteen fans, here it is:
Alan Vega - Dujang Prang
Amos Milburn – Chicken Shack Boogie
Antony and the Johnsons – My Lady Story
Beach Boys – Sloop John B
Beau Jocque & the Zydeco Hi-Rollers – Just One Kiss
Beausoleil – Chez Seychelles
Beck – He’s a Mighty Good Leader
Beth Orton – She Cries Your Name
Big Mama Thornton – Bumble Bee
Bluerunners – Ghost of a Girl
Voodoo Mens & Voodoo Dolls
Big Head
Bob Dylan – Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
Grand Coulee Dam
Blood In My Eyes
Diamond Joe
Dixie
Lonesome Day Blues
Bob Dylan & Mavis Staples
Gonna Change My Way of Thinking
Bob Dylan and The Band – Million Dollar Bash
Bob Neuwirth – Beautiful Day
Everybody’s Got a Job to Do
Sweet and Shiny Eyes
Bob Neuwirth with Peter Case – Travelin’ Light
Bobby “Blue” Bland – If You Could Read My Mind
Bright Eyes and Emmy Lou Harris – We Are Nowhere and This Is Now
Bryant’s Jubilee Quartet – I’ll Be Satisfied
Bukka White – Fixin’ to Die Blues
Bull Moose Jackson – I Know Who Threw the Whiskey (In the Well)
Calexico – Across the Wire
Guero Canelo
Charlie Rich – Life Has its Little Ups and Downs
Chris Whitley – Living With the Law
Big Sky Country
Chuck Berry – I Got to Find My Baby
Too Much Monkey Business (Live)
Chuckwagon Gang – As the Life of a Flower
Clara Ward – Packing Up
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cotton Fields
Midnight Special
Dave Van Ronk – Spike Driver Blues
David Baerwald – Why
The Crash
Dixie Hummingbirds – City of Gold
Doc Watson – Tom Dooley
Doc Watson and Frosty Morn – Working Man Blues
Dock Bogs – Pretty Polly
Dorothy Love Coates – Strange Man
Evan Dando – Hard Drive
Francesco Di Gregori – Non-Dirie Che Non-E’ Cosi
Gary Davis – Samson and Delilah Reverend
Gene Vincent – Baby Blue (Live)
Green On Red – Sea of Cortez
Hamell On Trial – Oughta Go Around
Hank Dogs – Hollywood
Hank Williams – Lost Highway
J.D. Crowe and the New South – Long Journey Home
Jackson Browne – Linda Paloma
James McMurtry – Out Here in the Middle
Jawbone – Get Rhythm
Jay Farrar – Feed Kill Chain
Barstow
Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett, and Roger McGuinn – East Virginia Blues
James Alley Blues
Jesse Malin – Queen of the Underworld
Jim White – Static On the Radio
Jimmie Driftwood – Battle of New Orleans
Jimmie Rodgers – My Blue Eyed Jane
Jimmy Cliff – Time Will Tell
Sufferin’ In the Land
Jimmy Martin – Hit Parade of Love
Jimmy Reed – Take Out Some Insurance
Joan Baez with Bob Dylan – It Ain’t Me Babe
Joe Ely – Saint Valentine
Ranches and Rivers
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – Ramshackle Day Parade
Coma Girl
John Cale – Things
John Jackson – John Henry
Frankie and Johnny
John Lee Hooker – Jump Me One More Time
John Prine – Clay Pigeons
John Sebastian & The J Band with Geoff Muldaur – Minglewood Blues
Johnny Cash – I Hung My Head
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Was My Brother In the Battle
Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Rufus Wainwright – Better Times Are Coming
Kermit Ruffins – Black and Blue
Kris Kristofferson – Loving Her Was Easier
Me and Bobby McGee
Lee Williams & The Spritual QC’s – When You Gonna Wake Up
Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows
Linda Ronstadt & Emily Lou Harris – Valerie
Link Wray – Black River Swamp
Take Me Home Jesus
Take My Hand (Precious Lord)
Loretta Lynn – Portland Oregon
Los Lobos – On a Night Like This
Anse Imo
Los Pregoneros Del Puerto – El Ahualco
Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five – St. James Infirmary
Love – Alone Again Or
Lucinda Williams – Ventura
Mahalia Jackson – God’s Gonna Separate the Wheat From the Tares
Marion Williams – I Just Can’t Help It
Maura O’Connell – Poor Man’s House
Mavis Staples – Hard Times Come Again No More
Michelle Shocked – One Piece at a Time
Mississippi John Hurt – Candy Man
My Morning Jacket – Death is the Easy Way
Nas – Bridging the Gap
Neko Case – Train From Kansas City
Wayfaring Stranger
Soulful Shade of Blue
This Little Light
The Tigers Have Spoken
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Right Now I’m A-Roaming
Nicky Thomas – Love of the Common People
Old 97’s – Barrier Reef
Patti Scialfa – Valerie
Paul Robeson – Joe Hill
Percy Sledge – Dark End of the Street
R.E.M. – Nightswimming
Rainy Day – I’ll Keep It With Mine
Ralph Stanley – On Death
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Roll On Buddy
Rance Allen – When He Returns
Rank & File – Lucky Day
The Conductor Wore Black
Coyote
Richard & Linda Thompson – I’ll Tag Along
Robert Mitchum – Ballad of Thunder Road
Robert Plant & Strange Sensation – Somebody Knocking
Rod Stewart – Girl From the North Country
Rodney Crowell – The Rock of My Soul
Roger McGuinn – I Dream Of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
Roger McGuinn with Frank and Mary Hamilton – The Brazos River
Roger McGuinn with Odetta – John the Revelator
Sail Away Lady
Roger McGuinn with Pete Seeger – Alabama Bound
Ron Sexsmith – Lebanon, Tennessee
Comrade Fill No Glass For Me
Ry Cooder – Jesus on the Mainline
Sam Cooke – Touch the Hem of His Garment
Just For You
Setah – One More Cup of Coffee
Sleater-Kinney – Promised Land
Slim Dunlap – Hate This Town
Social Distortion – 99 To Life
Song Dog – Days of Armageddon
Soul Stirrers – Jesus Gave Me Water
Steve Earle – Hardin Wouldn’t Run
Swan Silvertones – My Rock
Sweet Honey In the Rock – Run, Mourner, Run
T-Bone Burnett – River of Love
Annabelle Lee
Tarbox Ramblers – Oh Death
The Band – Long Black Veil
Blind Willie McTell
The Blasters – Hollywood Bed
The Byrds – It’s All Over Now
Oil In My Lamp
Chestnut Mare
I Am a Pilgrim
The Chambers Brothers – People Get Ready
See See Rider
The Clash – This Is England
The Everly Brothers – Abandoned Love
The Flying Burrito Brothers – Sin City
The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road
Fallen Peaches
The Jesters – Cadillac Man
The National – About Today
The Pogues – Dirty Old Town
The Body of an American
The Sleepy Jackson – Miniskirt
Thea Gilmore – I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
Todd Snider – Play a Train Song
Tom Paxton – Pastures of Plenty
Tony Joe White – Saturday Night In Oak Grove, Louisiana
Van Morrison – Sweet Thing
Victoria Williams – Summer of Drugs
Warren Zevon – My Ride’s Here
Ourselves To Know
Whiskeytown – Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
Will T. Massey – I Ain’t Here
Wiskey Biscuit – Santa Ana River Delta Blues
Wood – Straight Lines
Stay You
Woody Guthrie – Hard Travelin’