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Springsteen Short Film for “Hunter of Invisible Game”

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This week, Bruce Springsteen released the short film (i.e., long music video) by him and Thom Zimny for “Hunter of Invisible Game,” a song off Springsteen’s most recent album, High Hopes (2014). The video is set in a post-apocalyptic world, with the Springsteen character remembering better times with his family while travelling through the woods. The video seems inspired by shows like The Walking Dead (without the zombies). But as Rolling Stone reports, the song “Hunter of Invisible Game” came from Springsteen reading some post-apocalyptic literature. Springsteen, who says that the song is one of his favorites on the album, explained, “The idea of these travellers in the wasteland, and what’s the guy trying to do? He’s trying to hold onto their humanness, their humanity in all of this ruin.”

Until I saw the video, I had not connected the song to a post-apocalyptic world, but the lyrics do make sense now that I have seen the video: “There were empty cities and burnin’ plains.” Despite the desolation of much of the song, Springsteen still offers some hope at the end.

When the hour of deliverance comes on us all,
When our hope and faith and courage and trust
Can rise or vanish like dust into dust,
There’s a kingdom of love waiting to be reclaimed;
I am the hunter of invisible game.

The short film premiered on Springsteen’s website, which also features some behind-the-scenes photos, and now you may watch the film below. As Blogness on the Edge of Town points out, the film features some cool introductory music before it gets to the song. Check it out.

What do you think of “Hunter of Invisible Game”? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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    What Quiz Show Recently Devoted an Entire Category to Bruce Springsteen?

    Jeopardy Springsteen

    Jeopardy recently devoted a whole category to questions about Bruce Springsteen. Additionally, all of the category names were related to the singer: “Born in the U.S.A.,” “Glory Days,” “Cover Me,” “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” and “The ‘E’ Street Band.” Fans hoping for a whole board related to Springsteen, though, were disappointed to find out only the Springsteen category really had questions about the New Jersey rocker. For example, “E Street Band” contained clues related to words beginning the letter E.

    This video puts together the questions from the “Bruce Springsteen” category. Most long-time fans should find themselves doing pretty well with the clues, such as one about a Springsteen song that mentions suicide and was proposed as the New Jersey state song in 1980. Check it out.


    Bruce Springsteen – Jeopardy by mendle44

    How did you score? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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    Rolling Stones and Springsteen Perform “Tumbling Dice”

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    The Rolling Stones introduced special guest Bruce Springsteen on Thursday at the Rock in Rio Lisboa music festival in Lisbon, Portugal. Together, the legends performed one of my favorite Stones songs, “Tumbling Dice,” from Exile on Main Street (1972). Check out the lively performance that shows old guys still can rock.

    Springsteen and the Stones had played “Tumbling Dice” together previously at the end of the British band’s 2012 tour in Newark, New Jersey. The only disappointing thing about the recent appearance is that they did not follow it up with Springsteen’s “Roll of the Dice” from Human Touch (1992) .

    But maybe Springsteen has been in the mood for dice songs lately, as he did perform the rarely played “Roll of the Dice” earlier this month on May 19 at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut.

    What great rock artists would you like to see perform together? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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    Free Listen & Download of “Thunder Road: A Folk-Punk Tribute to Bruce Springsteen”

    Thunder Road Folk-Punk

    A new Bruce Springsteen tribute CD takes a folk-punk approach to many of the singer-songwriter’s songs, including “Thunder Road,” “Lucky Town,” “Radio Nowhere,” and “Born in the U.S.A.” The album, entitled Thunder Road: A Folk-Rock Tribute to Bruce Springsteen, features performers such as Cactus Vella, The Matchup, Jon Creeden, and Jesse LeBourdais.

    My favorite tracks include Swissknife’s “The Wrestler,” Jon Creeden’s “Atlantic City,” and The Matchup’s version of “Radio Nowhere.” An unusual and delightful sing-along version of “I’m On Fire” by Choir!Choir!Choir is worth checking out.

    If you like what you hear, Anxiety Attack Records has made the music available for free download. You may listen to the music and download if you choose by going to the Anxiety Attack Records website.

    What do you think of the folk-punk tribute to Springsteen? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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    “The River” Had a Happy Ending After All

    The River One of the many depressing songs on Bruce Springsteen’s 1980 double album The River, is the title track. The song ends with the singer haunted by memories, wondering “Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true / Or is it something worse?” The story is based on real life, but the real-life inspirations for the song did not have the ending foreseen in the lyrics.

    “The River”

    The singer of “The River” tells the story of meeting Mary in high school. The singer first recounts how the high school kids would go down to dive in the river. While the image is one of teenage joy, the music and earlier lines about growing up “to do like your daddy done” hint at something sadder. By the time the singer is nineteen, Mary is pregnant, and the couple find themselves getting married at the courthouse “with no wedding day smiles.”

    In the song, more troubles come.  The singer faces hard times and acts like he no longer remembers the past.  Meanwhile, Mary “acts like she don’t care.” But the singer does remember the past.  And it is those good times at the river that haunt his days.

    The Inspiration for “The River”

    Springsteen based his song on his sister Virginia (“Ginny”), who during her senior year of high school became pregnant. Ginny married her boyfriend, Michael “Mickey” Shave, who was a rodeo rider, in a small ceremony. The two then began their young family life together.

    In this video from one of his performances during the the No Nukes: The Muse Concerts For a Non-Nuclear Future on September 19-23, 1979 at Madison Square Garden, you can hear Springsteen introducing the new song with, “this is my brother-in-law and my sister.”

    The Real-Life Story

    Although Springsteen imagined a sad life resulting from such a start, things worked out better for Ginny and Mickey than they did for the singer and Mary. Ginny and Mickey have been married for more than forty years, and they had three children and several grandchildren.

    While, like everyone, Ginny and Mickey may wonder some days about what might have been, the real-life people who inspired “The River” do not seem as haunted as the characters in the song.

    Not only did things work out for the couple, but their wedding gave Ginny’s brother what Rolling Stone Magazine calls his fifth greatest song. It sounds like everyone’s dreams came true after all.

    What do you think of “The River”? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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