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The show in Nashville for Sept.10th has been moved to a new date: Nov.18, 2009.

According to BruceSpringsteen.net:

The Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band performance scheduled for September 10th at Nashville’s Sommet Center has been rescheduled for Wednesday, November 18th. All tickets for the original September 10th date will be honored on November 18th.

As an added bonus for the Nashville audience, the band will be adding «Born to Run» in its entirety as part of the evening’s full set list of Bruce Springsteen favorites!

After the end of the European tour, Bruce Springsteen has choosen Donostia (San Sebastián) to spend his holidays. Patti Scialfa and the children all arrived to the city on wednesday.

The newspaper El Diario Vasco has published numerous pictures of Bruce and his family visiting the center of San Sebastián. You can see the photos at Diario Vasco.

You can now visit John Fogerty‘s official website and listen to his duet with Bruce Springsteen on «When Will I Be Loved». The song is part of John’s forthcoming album The Blue Ridge Rangers – Rides Again, to be released in September.

And one month later Bruce will appear dueting on another album. This time he’ll sing at Rosanne Cash‘s new album, The List, in the song «Sea of Heartbreak».

The european leg of the Working on a Dream tour ended in Santiago de Compostela last Sunday with a show that will be difficult to forget.

To begin with, arriving thru a small road to the auditorium on top of the hill was a real adventure that took a long time. According to the press, the organization oversold various thousands of tickets, therefore resulting in a real overbooking, with around a thousand people who couldn’t physically enter the venue and had to stay outside. Meanwhile, inside there were around 40,000 fans crushed and packing the house. The people outside tore down some fences trying to get in, and by just a pure miracle there wasn’t a riot where people could get hurt. A lot of people ended up seeing the show from the grass outside the venue, and 50 of them went to the police station to file a report.

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A bit after 10pm the best version of Bruce Springsteen came onstage to offer a vibrant performance, similar to the one in Bilbao just one week ago. Nils Lofgren played the very popular ‘A Rianxeira’ on the accordion, and the E Street Band quickly kicked off the show with a rousing ‘Badlands’. Bruce was complety ‘on’ tonight, and the tension and excitement grew and grew song after song.

«Adam Raised a Cain» was the first highlight of the night. An audible that took the show to another dimension. Bruce sang and played with fury, and the song smoked. It was a tremendous electric storm that continued with a fabulous «Murder Incorporated», where the guitar trio shone, followed by «Johnny 99» and a really great performance of another classic: «Darkness on the Edge of Town».

(photo: the sing for Burning Love, that travelled from Roma to Santiago. Photo by René Van Diemen. Roma)

Thanks to a big sign held by a group of italian fans Bruce debuted a tremendous version of Elvis Presley’s «Burning Love». A superb performance that was followed without stop by an exciting «Born to Be Wild» that segued into «My Love Will Not Let You Down». Max went crazy on this one, and his final drum fills received a huge roar from the audience.

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This was Bruce Springsteen at his best. The excitement and energy level never went down and another sign request brought a beautiful «This Life», inmediately followed by an inmense «Backstreets» that filled the auditorium with emotion. Bruce sang with passion and epic and everyone in the green hill was in awe.

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With such level of adrenaline going on both on stage and in the audience, there was a long 8-song encore that started with a rare acoustic version of «No Surrender», followed by «Land of Hope and Dreams» and «American Land», plus the crowd favourites «Glory Days» and «Dancing in the Dark», a rousing «Rockin’ All Over the World», and the classic «Twist and Shout». The audience couldn’t stop singing, dancing and jumping all over, and there was no way this could end. A totally unexpected and powerful «Born in the U.S.A.» sent everyone hope with the feeling that we had attended a very special show.

Newspaper articles about the chaotic entrance to the show:
El País – Decenas de denuncias por el concierto de Springsteen en Santiago
La Voz de Galicia – Protestas por las colas en el concierto
El Correo Gallego – Caos y protestas en el concierto de Bruce Springsteen en Santiago

See complete set list.

Bruce Springsteen is enjoying his tour of Spain tremendously, having a lot of fun with these enthusiastic audiences. The audience in Valladolid was no different, responding louding to songs like «Badlands» or «Hungry Heart», combining oldstuff (gems like «Spirit in the Night» or a fabulous «Something in the Night») with the usual hits and crowd pleasers («American Land» had the whole stadium dancing and jumping). The show started with a lot of energy, included an exciting «Spirit in the Night» and had some interesting sign-requests: Jerry Lee Lewis’ «Great Balls of Fire» (the sing dared to say ‘If you have balls, play Great Balls of Fire’), «Something in the Night» (note-by-note perfect) and a really good version of «Surprise, Surprise» that reminded us of the best Roy Orbison melodies and chord changes.

But that was it. After that there was a change in peace and the energy level clearly dropped, though you couldn’t tell by the audience reaction to songs like «Waitin’ on a Sunny Day», «The Rising», «Girls in their summer clothes» (played at the slowest possible tempo), «Bobby Jean» or «Dancing in the Dark». Not a bad show, as it seemed to please everyone, but not the kind of show to rave about. Still, a more compelling performance than the one in Benidorm two days before. Tonight’s show featured Roy Bittan opening the show playing a typical «Pasodoble» on the accordion.

See complete set list.