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Tremendous show in Greenville last night. Springsteen and the band delivered a fantastic concert (with Jay on drums once again), where they played the first ever live E Street Band performance of the classic Rolling Stones tune «Satisfaction» (previously performed only at a private rehearsal for the 1978 tour), plus «Double Shot of My Baby’s Love», this time with the very own Swingin’ Medallions onstage with The E Street Band, a historic moment and one of the highlights of the show.

The show kicked off with «Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out», and also included «Ramrod» and «This Hard Land» (both sign requests), «Atlantic City», «Backstreets», «Detroit Medley» and «Glory Days».

The original handwritten set list had a great surprise: «Wreck on the Highway», a gem off The River, finally not performed and substituted by «Atlantic City».

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The tour continued in Florida yesterday with a show in Ft. Lauderdale. With his voice back in full shape, Springsteen and his band delivered an stunning performance, with a sublime «Backstreets» being the highlight of the show. But there was more: «Working on the Highway» was an unusual opener, followed by «Badlands», «Night» and «Cover Me», setting the tone of the night. Later would come an unexpected «Sherry Darling», with Charlie, Roy and Nils on accordion (after tuning with snippets of «Lady of Spain» and «Hava Nagila»), plus «Factory», and special sign requests that brought «Be True», «Cadillac Ranch» and «So Young and In Love» (only for the second time this year).

«Then She Kissed Me» was the first encore (a song co-written by the late Ellie Greenwich) and the closing song was «Thunder Road». The original set list included the not-performed «Atlantic City» and «Saint in the City». For this leg of the tour Max is on the drums.

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Back to Florida to begin the last leg of the current tour. With a hoarse voice (which Springsteen apologized for: «Sorry about my voice. Too much time off!») during the first part of the show, the performance was very good, with a varied set list that included some old gems («Point Blank», «Racing in the Street», «Growin’ Up», «Rosalita» and «Thunder Road»), tour standards (with «My Lucky Day» back in the set), and a couple of interesting tour premieres during the sign-request segment: Human Touch‘s «All Or Nothing At All» and the classic Cajun «Jolè Blon».

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«Sherry Darling». Udine, Italia July 2009, with 3 accordions.

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«Take ‘Em As They Come». Originally published on Tracks, written in 1980 for The River, covered here by Jimmy EatWorld.

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Published in the UK on June 25th, by Souvenir Press, Magic in the Night – The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen, by Rob Kirkpatrick, is a complete discussion of Springsteen’s career from Greetings from Asbury Park to 2009’s Working on a Dream. In this book Kirkpatrick describes how Springsteen’s music and own intellectual life has developed; how a man steeped in popular culture became the political conscience of a nation, how his studies in literature, photography and history led to albums with such a resonant vision as Nebraska and The Rising.

Rob Kirkpatrick reveals Springsteen’s evolution, exploring the cultural, biographical and musical influences on each album’s songs (and many unreleased songs) in chronological order. The book offers a detailed and competing analysis of Springsteen’s art, life and the changes America have gone through during his life.