BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – WESTERN STARS: REVIEW
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Western Stars (Sony) The song opens at dusk or dawn, it doesn’t matter, a man “searching for my love” with the resignation of one who knows she’s not going to be found. The chorus reaches up even as the strings pull down the sky, the backing voices arrive like a mildly scolding chorus of great aunts whispering “look what you’ve done”, and the snare drum is a clap of hands saying snap out of it - as if it can pull against the tide of the timpani and violins a