Bruce Springsteen’s Tour Resumption Is Its Own Kind of Promised Land: Concert Review
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Most of the really essential rituals of American life — religious observances; Halloween and New Year’s Eve; opening day in baseball — are cyclical, endlessly repeatable experiences, independent from individuals or cults of personality.
But to that list, a lot of us would add the ritual, stretching past 50 years now, of Bruce Springsteen in concert. And as the world found out last year, that guy can take a sick day.
So, as if Springsteen tours weren’t already irregular enough, the fresh resumption of this U.S. tour, after a six-month timeout, has an extra resonance.
The feeling is: Get in while the getting’s good. With any luck, there will be more itineraries like this, but there won’t always be a time when you can see the greatest songbook in American rock history, being toured by the music’s single greatest artist.
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