Springsteen Hits the Appalachian Trail - Backpacker Magazine

[WhiteBlaze]

Springsteen Hits the Appalachian Trail Backpacker Magazine - 34 minutes ago 1) It’s not every day that an artist mentions the Appalachian Trail in the first line of the first song of his latest album. The song is “Outlaw Pete” on ...

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[SGT Rock]

Jack, you got this one yet?

[RedneckRye]

I'm fairly ambivalent about Springsteen. He's got his high points and his bleh points. The only time he bothers me is when I am in the same vicinity as Jack and a CD player and the Bruce won't stop (except for when Mr. John Cash interrupts him and even that gets old, eventually), but I've got to say the title song of the new album has got to be one of the worst songs ever. It has been played about 56 times a day for the last month on the XM channel we listen to at work. The lyrics are "Working on a dream, I'm working on a dream" mumbled over and over and over and over and over again.
Did he develop tourette's or something during the writing process?
I'm hoping that due to Jack's vastly different views and opinions from Bruce, that Jack has now sworn the Boss off and it will be a mostly Springsteen free Winter Warmer.

[Sleepy the Arab]

I'm fairly ambivalent about Springsteen.

Me too. Almost all music I listen to I either like or dislike to varying degrees. Except "The Boss." Neither. His music falls strictly in the middle of the road. The vanilla of my music tastes.

[Nicksaari]

J. Tarlin's trail name is from a springsteen song. im sure you all know that

[Nicksaari]

if you ever show up late and someone is like '*** are you late?'


"the highway was jammed with broken heros on a last chance power drive."

[DuctTape]

So how may "Outlaw Pete"s are we gonna have on the trail next year. Was tempted to change my own trail name...hmm...maybe...

I'm a big Bruce fan - seen him about 15 times in concert.

[Yahtzee]

"nuns run bald thru vatican halls, pregnant, pleadin' immaculate conception"

[Hooch]

J. Tarlin's trail name is from a springsteen song. im sure you all know that

Nicksaari.......Master of the Obvious.

[Lone Wolf]

J. Tarlin's trail name is from a springsteen song. im sure you all know that

no way! you're kidding!

[Gray Blazer]

J. Tarlin's trail name is from a springsteen song. im sure you all know that

Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips?

[hopefulhiker]

When we stayed at Bear's Den hostel. . we all had this sing along where they passed out the lyrics of popular songs. One by Woody Guthrie.. This land is your land... I was actually shocked as I sang the last lines of the song..Not many people know these words.. Anyway I just saw Springsteen and 89 year old Pete Seger sing this version on TV.. I did not know that Bruce was such a radical....

Here are the last lines to the song..

The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

Chorus

In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.

[sherrill]

I hear he's hitting the trail right after the halftime show.

[Lone Wolf]

he has no clue where it is

[Pedaling Fool]

It'd be funny if he did hike it, there'd be tons of ass-kissing fans following him (***in' up the trail) and he'd probably surpass Bill Bryson in popularizing the trail.

[sherrill]

Sure he does, LW - it's up there in them thar hills somewheres.

[Young Scott]

Yeah, if Bruce hiked the AT I'd offer to carry him. I'm sorry, but I love the man.

[Lone Wolf]

bruce is right up there with neil diamond and barry manilow

[Sly]

I have Bruce's We Shall Overcome folk album. It's pretty good.

[Mags]

I think people think it is "middle of the road" because, well, people are used to his songs being sung for all the wrong reasons because they are misinterpeted. (e.g BORN IN THE USA or GLORY DAYS)

Listen to something like THE RIVER and (at least for me) it is hard not to get said.

Maybe my own personal cultural roots aren't far removed from what he sings about. Dunno, but the music always resonated with me.

In any case, some like chocolate. Some like strawberry.

It's all good.