Bruce SpringsteenBorn to Run

A screen door slams, a harmonica cries, and Thunder Road rolls open on piano before the whole band crashes in. This was his make-or-break third record, chased over fourteen months toward a Wall of Sound that nearly broke him. The title track piles layered guitars, glockenspiel, and a soaring sax break behind tramps like us. Jungleland closes with Clarence Clemons' nine-minute sax epic. Big, dense, euphoric, Bruce rasping over arrangements ready to burst. Drop the needle and run.