According to Ann Powers, Trouble is Still Her Muse

A Birthday Quiz

Meg Jensen!  Where are you?  This entire website is here to tell you I finally fell for Bruce, fuckin’ finally… why did it take so long, what happened to me?  It happened after holing up with a secret flame, air mattress sunken flat to the corrogated metal floor in the back of a cargo truck, Friday night at Bonnaroo 2009, waiting for short lapses of sleep.  Son-of-a-bitch, consciousness shift at 8 am an astonishing revival raking across the land and sky, swaying the earth, the upending glory of a sunrise gospel and the booming heart of an old man’s singing, for fuck’s sake Bruce Springsteen at sound check…a savaging call, so startling that it sawed me in half, almost as deep as our last few enlightening years when you tried to tell me and I refused: how could that be?  Meg! As with other dusty saviors, this is a mighty call breaking over a terrible heartbreak once again.  But here is my voice calling yours, to admit what I couldn’t accept back then and to YOU.  Lot’s of love and I pray to continue to listen closely….

THE SET LIST:

Badlands
No Surrender
My Lucky Day
Outlaw Pete
Out in the Street
Working on a Dream
Seeds
Johnny 99
Youngstown
Raise Your Hand (Eddie Floyd cover)
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Harry Reser and His Orchestra cover)
Growin’ Up
Thunder Road
Waitin’ on a Sunny Day
The Promised Land
The River
Kingdom of Days
Radio Nowhere
Lonesome Day
The Rising
Born to Run
Encore:
Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen Foster cover)
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Land of Hope and Dreams
American Land
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Glory Days
Dancing in the Dark