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A few words about "Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band"

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A FEW WORDS ABOUT 'ROAD DIARY: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E-STREET BAND'
I have been a fan of Bruce Springsteen my entire adult life. When I was an unhappy high schooler living in Southern Indiana in the early 1970s, I ran away from home. For reasons which are too long to explain here, I headed to Chicago and in an effort to get warm talked my way into a club called The Quiet Knight. I knew the music of the headliners, an acapella group called The Persuasions. But I had never heard of the opener, a charismatic young rocker named Bruce Springsteen. 

I instantly felt a connection to his music and have seen him live a number of times over the years. Sometimes at some very iconic and pivotal moments in his career (both at the Roxy and at Winterland). I don't always love his music (I could be happy never hearing his Woody Guthrie-inspired stuff ever again), but I've always been fascinated by his mus…