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There’s an unknowable alchemy when it comes to a great Bruce show.

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Bruce Springsteen writes about proud, defiant people, and that pride is both a virtue and a downfall. On “This Depression,” he sings as a man who is feeling incredibly defeated, but lacks the capacity to…

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Connections — a long dark highway, a thin white line. The sinew that gathers up bones and keeps them whole — a country, a family, a couple.