8.2
Avg Score
3
Opinions
#4,867
All Time
2
Tracks
“A boisterous, spirit-raising throwdown on which the Boss tackles the tangle of war, strife, poverty, and unrest without sacrificing joy or release.”
“Near the end of "Mrs. McGrath," a nineteenth-century Irish ballad that is the third track on Bruce Springsteen’s new album, comes a couplet that gives a pretty good sense of why he’s putting out an album of traditional folk music right now: "All foreign wars, I do proclaim/Live on blood and a mother’s pain." We […]”