Tag Archives: E Street Band

Tom’s Top 10 of 2014, Pt. 1

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Tom Emanuel

In December 2013, as regular readers may recall, I decided to catch up on the state of contemporary music by listening to and reviewing an album every day for a month. My listening in 2014 was more evenly spread out … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged acid folk, Albums of 2014, Best Albums of 2014, Bruce Springsteen, Dap-Kings, David Gilmour, E Street Band, folk rock, High Hopes, Jenny Lewis, Linda Perhacs, mainstream rock, neo-psych, Nick Mason, Parallelograms, Pink Floyd, power pop, psych, R&B, Rick Wright, Rilo Kiley, Sharon Jones, singer-songwriter, soft rock, The Endless River, The Soul of All Natural Things, The Voyager | 1 Comment

Tom’s Top 5’s: Albums of 1973

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

For many Americans, 1973 is remembered as the year that Watergate broke. In my home state of South Dakota, it’s remembered as the year that American Indian Movement activists faced off against federal marshals at Wounded Knee II. These two … Continue reading →

Posted in Top 5's | Tagged Band on the Run, Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band, Genesis, Paul McCartney, progressive rock, Quadrophenia, Selling England by the Pound, The Who, The Wild the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, Top 5 Albums of 1973, Wings | Leave a comment

Album Review: Bruce Springsteen, “High Hopes”

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Tom Emanuel

From the first chorus of the first track on High Hopes (2014), you know Bruce Springsteen is trying something different with this one. First off, “High Hopes” is a cover of a little-known L.A. band from the 90s, the Havalinas; … Continue reading →

Posted in Album Reviews | Tagged Albums of 2014, American Skin (41 Shots), Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen, Down in the hole, E Street Band, Frankie Fell In Love, Harry's Place, Heaven's Wall, High Hopes, Hunter of Invisible Game, Just Like Fire Would, The Ghost of Tom Joad, The Rising, The Wall, This Is Your Sword, Tom Morello | 2 Comments

Album Review: David Ford, “Charge”

Posted on December 15, 2013 by Tom Emanuel

The art of songwriting consists largely in the art of making the particular universal and the universal particular. To see through our own experience to the heart of the human experience, to see our own stories reflected in the Great … Continue reading →

Posted in Album Reviews | Tagged Albums of 2013, Bruce Springsteen, Charge (album), David Ford, E Street Band, Every Time, Isn't It Strange?, Perfect Soul, Philadelphia Boy, Pour a Little Poison, rock, The Ballad of Miss Lily, Woody Guthrie | 2 Comments