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More or less. This is the music he picked to play over the PA before his current shows:

New Born Soul Staple Singers
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt Bob Dylan
Old Corn Liquor Joe Thompson
Working On A Building Jackson Mtn Boys
Did You Hear John Hurt? Dave Van Ronk
Texas Cowboy Glen Ohrlin
Oklahoma Hills Arlo Guthrie
Ghost Of A Girl Bluerunners
Strange Man Dorothy Core Coates
Long Journey Home J.D. Crowe And The New South
El Ahalulco Los Prograros Del Puerro
Oh Death Tarbox Ramblers
Pastures Of Plenty Tom Paxton
My Rock Swan Silvertones
You Can't Hold On Holmes Brothers
Just One Kiss Beau Rogue & The Zydeco High Rollers
Les Seychelles Beausoleil
We Are Nowhere And This Is Now Bright Eyes & Emmylou Harris
Play A Train Song Todd Snider
Grand Coulee Dam Bob Dylan
On A Night Like This Los Lobos
One More Cup Of Coffee Setah

CD 2 Of 3 Walk In Vol 1
Blood In My Eyes Bob Dylan
Voodoo Men & Voodoo Dolls Bluerunners
I Can't Help It Marion Williams
Cotton Fields Credence Clearwater Revival
Diamond Joe Bob Dylan
Non Dircle Che Non E' Cosi Francesco Di Gregori
Hard Travelin' Woody Guthrie
Packing Up Clara Ward
Comrade Fill No Glass For Me Ron Sexsmith
Tom Dooley Doc Watson
Jesus Gave Me Water Soul Stirrers
People Get Ready Chambers Brothers
Midnight Special Credence Clearwater Revival
Dixie Bob Dylan
City Of Gold Dixie Hummingbirds
I Dream Of Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair Roger Mcguinn
Candy Man Mississippi John Hurt
Joe Hill Paul Robeson
Black And Blue Kermit Ruffin
Roll On Buddy Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Battle Of New Orleans Jimmie Drfrisco
Bumble Bee Big Mama Thornton
Big Head Bluerunners

CD 3 Of 3 Walk In Vol 1
Hard Times Come Again No More Mavis Staples
Beautiful Dreamer Raul Malo
Autumn Waltz Henry Kaiser
See See Rider Chambers Brothers
Samson And Delilah Rev. Gary Davis
It Ain't Me Babe Joan Baez And Bob Dylan

CD 1 Of 3 Walk In Vol 2
Mississippi Bob Dylan
Valerie Patti Scialfa
My Ride's Here Warren Zevon
Queen Of The Underworld Jesse Malin
Ourselves To Know Warren Zevon
Nightswimming R.E.M.
Living With The Law Chris Whitley
Alone Again Or Love
Long Black Veil The Band
Million Dollar Bash Bob Dylan And The Band
Sloop John B Beach Boys
Promised Land Sleater-Kinney
Linda Paloma Jackson Browne
It's All Over Now Byrds
Portland, Oregon Loretta Lynn
Loving Her Is Easier Kris Kristofferson
Sweet Thing Van Morrison
Summer Of Drugs Victoria Williams
Valerie Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
Wall Of Death Richard & Linda Thompson

CD 2 Of 3 Walk In Vol 2
Lonesome Day Blues Bob Dylan
Big Sky Country Chris Whitley
Oil In My Lamp The Byrds
Me And Bobby Mcgee Kris Kristofferson
Movin'on Up Primal Scream
Lebanon, Tennesee Rex Sexsmith
Dark End Of The Street Percy Sledge
Time Will Tell Jimmy Cliff
This Is England The Clash
Saint Valentine Joe Ely
Touch The Hem Sam Cooke
If You Could Read My Mind Bobby Blue Band
Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen
Sufferin' In The Land Jimmy Cliff
Dirty Old Town The Pogues
The Body Of An American The Pogues
She Calls Your Name Beth Orton
Chestnut Mare The Byrds
Hate This Town Slim Dunlap
New York City Song Dion

CD 3 Of Walk In Vol 2
Ranchs And Rivers Joe Ely
Just For You Sam Cooke
Lifes Little Ups And Downs Charlie Rich
Take Out Some Insurance Jimmy Reed
Straight Lines Wood
Chicken Shack Boogie Amos Milborn
Stay You Wood

Slow Burn Four Tet

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

boooooring.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

there's something I find unsavory about saying "iPod" as shorthand for "music someone listens to/endorses"

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

I kind of like how boring it is. only sore thumb is Bright Eyes, and even that's with Emmylou Harris.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Gat Decor Passion

wtf springsteen?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Maybe, just maybe
Bruce's music dropped off when
his tastes got SO WHITE

wasn't Springsteen once
obscure R&B / jazz man?
this stuff's good, but damn.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

That Lil' Jon track was a surprise.

Dammit Ronan beat me to it.

― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

man, I don't know what you guys were expecting (although Haikunym's disappointment seems more moderate and reasonable). I'd rather it be all sleepy and old and canonical than it be all him trying to keep up with the times and stuffing it full of Arcade Fire and DFA. let an old dude be an old dude.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

what, no Suicide ???

― Korova Milkbar, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Apparently he REALLY likes the "Masked & Anonymous" soundtrack.

Do the Staple Singers, Dorothy Love (not "Core") Coates, Amos Milburn, Marion Williams, Dixie Hummingbirds, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Cliff, Clara Ward etc. now somehow count as white?

And as weird as it is to have his intro tape include a cover of one of his own songs, where the hell did he find a Sleater-Kinney recording of "Promised Land"? I know they've covered it live (to fantastic effect), but didn't know they'd recorded it...

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

he throws his wife's stuff in there, too

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Four Tet, really?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

primal scream??

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Do the Staple Singers, Dorothy Love (not "Core") Coates, Amos Milburn, Marion Williams, Dixie Hummingbirds, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Cliff, Clara Ward etc. now somehow count as white?

Okay, okay, they're not white. But Paul Robeson still is!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

he throws his wife's stuff in there, too

The track he throws in happens to be some of Mike Campbell's top work.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

boooooring.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

ChrisWhitleyr00lzurgaykthxbye

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Al and Douglas OTM. Let Springsteen be Springsteen. It's really quite an elegant list, and far more diverse than it would have to be.

Now what I really want to see is Robert Plant's ipod...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Springsteen Rockist? The shocking new charges tonight at 11...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

ugh. so much bob dylan.

― ihope (ihope), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if when he comes onstage, anyone yells "hey, can finish listening to the walk-in mix?"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Virgin Prunes - "Ballad Of The Man" !

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

ugh. so much bob dylan.

Where over the last 35 years could you have gotten that idea?

― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know anybody bought that Slim Dunlap album.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Bruce has the same Rounder Anniversary Box that I do.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I am Springsteen?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

An easy way to tell: Have you ever kissed Clarence Clemons?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Bruce has the same Rounder Anniversary Box that I do.

ha!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

Remember, this is the intro music to his earnest acoustic tour. I seem to recall the last song playing before his reunion tour a few years ago was Ice-T. But really, what was everyone expecting? Merzbow?

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

you guys are just as predictable in your responses as you say Springsteen is in his choices.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

OTM. Bruce could have 5 cds created by Diplo himself and he'd still get BS from people here about being "stodgy."

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Four Tet? I'm amazed this is on his radar. He should have got Keiran to produce his latest album, or at least remix something from it.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Bruce has the same Rounder Anniversary Box that I do.

ha!

No, really, half that stuff...the Dave Van Ronk, the Beausoleil, the Holmes Bros, Beau JOCQUES (listed above as "Beau Rogues"), Dixie Hummingbirds, etc, is on the Rounder Records whatever Anniversary box they sent out in 2001.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

I just want to publicly apologize to Douglas Wolk. I was clearly wrong up above, when I said that there were absolutely no songs on these lists by any people of color whatsoever. I had absolutely no idea that the Staple Singers, Dorothy Love (not "Core") Coates, Amos Milburn, Marion Williams, Dixie Hummingbirds, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Cliff, Clara Ward etc. were African Americans! I certainly wasn't speaking more generally about the bent of the overall list and what I feel to have been a shift in Bruce Springsteen's tastes over time, or anything like that! Golly! Anyway, again, sorry, and sorry to all of ILM.

― Petulantnym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

oh, i believe you all right! sort of like how someone traced the "themes" of john zorn's 1980s/90s lps to the coffee table books being featured from month to month at a certain greenwich village bookstore. disappointing.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Rockism In Motion Alert: "Sound Check" on WNYC is about to have Anthony DeCurtis talking about Springsteen!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

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