Thirty Years Burning Down the Road

Bruce sat at his kitchen table to record a tape of demos. Rough outline sketches that would serve as a blueprint for the E Street's next album. He couldn't get past the vision of the music from the demos, even (supposedly) after recording the album with his band. Thank goodness, his manager, Jon Landau, said, "this is the album." What Bruce gave us was, not only half of his smash Born in the U.S.A., was his noir classic, Nebraska.
Here.

His best album? Very possibly.

The 2012 presidential campaign officially launched, with the Iowa caucus rolling through the state. Who would have thought that Mitt Romney would have tied with, all people, Rick Santorum? Ron Paul third, Newt Gingrich fourth, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann distant fifth and sixth, respectively. I can't remember the last time such a far-right grouping of candidates ran for president. In 1964 and 1968, Ronald Reagan was the lone example of the far-right branch of the GOP; today, he'd probably be the most liberal of them all. This is going to be interesting.