Bruce Springsteen - Letter to You

Pitchfork 74

Read Sam Sodomsky’s review of the album.

The Guardian 0

(Columbia)
An album about fallen comrades sees the E Street Band deliver the distilled elixir of their best stadium-filling form

While Bruce Springsteen was performing Springsteen on Broadway, the stage iteration of his 2016 memoir, his former teenage bandmate, George Theiss, was dying of cancer. Well before the E Street Band, there were the Castiles, an incubator where Springsteen first played guitar, then sang, from 1965 to 1968.

As the end neared, Springsteen held a vigil at the North Carolina bedside of his former musical sparring partner. When Theiss died, Springsteen became the only surviving Castile, a realisation that spawned a new song, The Last Man Standing.

It's cheesier than a Monterey Jack… but exactly the album some people could use right now