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Bruce Springsteen has been nominated in 4 different categories for the 52nd Grammy Awards. The award cereremony will be held in Los Angeles on January 31st, 2010:

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals
(For a collaborative performance, with vocals, by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only)
Sea Of Heartbreak
Rosanne Cash & Bruce Springsteen

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance
(For a solo vocal performance. Singles or Tracks only)
Working On A Dream
Bruce Springsteen
Track from: Working On A Dream

Best Rock Song
(A Songwriter(s) Award. Includes Rock, Hard Rock & Metal songs. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses) Singles or Tracks only)
Working On A Dream
Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)
Track from: Working On A Dream
[Columbia; Publisher: Bruce Springsteen]

Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
(A Songwriter(s) award. For a song (melody & lyrics) written specifically for a motion picture, television or other visual media, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses) Singles or Tracks only).
The Wrestler (From The Wrestler)
Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)
[Columbia; Publisher: Bruce Springsteen.]

Bruce Springsteen said goodbye to the Working on a Dream tour (but not to the E Street Band!) in Buffalo with a historic performance. 34 songs in 3 hours and 27 minutes of pure joy and ecstasy. A memorable night that exceeded any expectactions. The performance of Bruce’s debut album Greetings from Asbury Park NJ was superlative, but right after it ended the show never went down an inch, it grew and grew and grew in intensity, featuring a big variety of songs and a buch of rarities.

The highlights of the show (there were probably too many!) were a beautiful «The Angel» (with an unknown viola player), a magnificent «Growin’ Up» which included a long story about the day Bruce met Clarence, a crazy version of «Spirit in the Night», plus a devastating «Lost in the Flood» that let us completely stunned. Best ever version? Probably. Bruce’s and Max’s work at the end of the song (and the whole band, indeed) was simply mesmerizing.

Those alone were worth the trip and the show, but there were tons more. The initial «Wrecking Ball» (sounding better than ever) followed by an inspiring «The Ties That Bind», and the fun crowd-surfing on «Hungry Heart». And then the world live debut of the superb «Restless Nights», upon Stevie’s request as it was his birthday, plus a great «Surprise, Surprise», again dedicated to Stevie after guitar tech Kevin Buell brought a b/day cake onstage.

The requests section included «Merry Christmas Baby», «Santa Claus is Coming to town», the rare «I Don’t Wanna Hang Up My Rock’n’roll Shoes» (need he say more?) -last performed with the band in Saginaw, Michigan in 1978-, inmediately followed by a rockin’ «Boom Boom» and a megapowerful «My Love Will Not Let You Down». Moments later, Steve shone again with his vocals on «Long Walk Home», and after the usual «The Rising» and «Born to Run», Springsteen added an extra one to the main set, which ended with a tremendous «Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out» («the history of the band»).

Was that enough? Not for Bruce, who went on as if he never really wanted to leave that stage. Encores arrived, with more surprises and lots of energy to spend yet. A beautiful and fast-paced «I’ll Work For Your Love» opened the encore set, followed by «Thunder Road». By the time he got to the fabulous «Higher and Higher» (with Willie Nile as guest), there was no way to stop Bruce, who finally closed the set, the show and the tour with a fantastic long version of John Fogerty’s «Rockin’ All Over the World», with thanks to all his fans from every country in the world, and him naming every name of everyone in his crew and finally saying: «We appreciate you coming out to see The E Street Band. So we’re gonna say goodbye, but just for a little while, a very little while, because, because… I like it, I like it, I like it», and then resuming the song again to a glorious end.

photo: copyright 2009 Raul Nieto

See complete set list completo de Buffalo.

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After a great concert in Nashville, Springsteen offered in Baltimore the penultimate show of the tour, where he announced that he would take a break but would return in the future because «we’re shutting down for a little while, but we will see you in the future, further on down the road, because we have miles to go before we sleep!» (Steve Van Zandt said recently in an interview that he saw no reason to quit and the band would keep playing together in the future).

This was the first time that Bruce played in Baltimore since 1973, and he celebrated it with an enthusiastic and powerful show, full of energy and 3 hours and 20 minutes in lenght, one of the longest of the tour so far. The usual and excellent full performance of the Born to Run album was followed by «Waitin ‘On A Sunny Day» and «Spirit in the Night», plus many spectacular moments: the instrumental «Green Onions» made its debut on the tour and was played while Bruce collected sign requests. And those brought «Santa Claus Is Coming To Town», «The E Street Shuffle» and a splendid «For You», with Bruce solo at the piano.

The pace did not come down and a wave of unstoppable rock came next, with Springsteen going full speed with «Radio Nowhere», «My Love Will Not Let You Down» and an exciting «Long Walk Home», with Van Zandt exploding his most soulful side with some terrific vocals. A request for «Ramrod» opened the encores, which included a rare and welcome «Land of Hope and Dreams» and the usual encores, for a total of 8 songs, ending with «Higher and Higher», always impressive, and the added bonus of «Glory Days».

See complete set list for Baltimore.

A 4-hour special with highlights from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Anniversary concerts at Madison Square Garden will air on Nov.29th on HBO, beginning at 8pm. The show will be re-broadcast various times in December. It will include songs from the performances by Jerry Lee Lewis, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, U2 and others.

It has been confirmed that the special will contain the following Springsteen performances:

«Because the Night» (U2 with Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen)
«I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For» (U2 with Bruce Springsteen)
«Hold On, I’m Coming» (with Sam Moore)
«Soul Man» (with Sam Moore)
«The Ghost of Tom Joad» (with Tom Morello)
«Fortunate Son» (with John Fogerty)
«Oh, Pretty Woman» (with John Fogerty)
«Jungleland»
«A Fine, Fine Boy» (with Darlene Love)
«New York State of Mind» (with Billy Joel)
«Born to Run» (with Billy Joel)
«(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher» (with John Fogerty, Billy Joel, Darlene Love, Sam Moore and Tom Morello)