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Peter Ames Carlin on the record that made Bruce Springsteen

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Friend of the pod and chronicler of the careers of Springsteen, Paul Simon and REM, Peter Ames Carlin has heard all the recordings that went into the album which was Springsteen’s last chance saloon and spoken to the people who were there to put together the story of how it was all done.


….the lucky break that came when the boss’s son went to a Springsteen show

….the man who played on Bruce Springsteen’s greatest record and then left

….how Springsteen learned that the way to make a live-sounding record was not to record it live

….the reconnecting of 70s rock with the great American rock & roll of the 50s

…the thinking behind one of the few album covers deserving of the adjective “iconic”

…what happened when Steve Van Zandt told the Brecker Brothers what to play

….the fundamental difference between American and British music


Tonight In Jungleland: The Making Of Born To Run: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tonight-Jungleland-Making-Born-Run/dp/0385551533


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