Bruce Springsteen offers numerous favorites from the '70s and some contemplative new songs at his first Houston show in six years.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform at the Toyota Center in Sowntown Houston, TX Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. Photo: Jamaal Ellis/Contributor
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform at the Toyota Center in Sowntown Houston, TX Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. Photo: Jamaal Ellis/Contributor Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform at the Toyota Center in Sowntown Houston, TX Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. Photo: Jamaal Ellis/Contributor In doing so, Springsteen never bothered to file serial number off any parts he swiped. “She’s the One” doesn’t need a DNA test to connect it to Bo Diddley and/or Buddy Holly. His stated Roy Orbison affinity is more opaque because one singer sounds like an angel and the other a hoodlum. But Springsteen learned from the Texas balladeer the value in contrasts: start with a breeze so the tempest benefits from dynamic disparity.
It was a spirited performance from Springsteen and the E Street Band. They remain a treasure and a dynamic stage entity.Thirty years ago, I saw Springsteen in Dallas. Near the show’s end he offered a bit of comic drama, falling backward and being caught by his band members. “I’m too old,” he said, staggering backward. They’d push him back to the microphone. “I’m too old.”Recently I was listening to his 1979 set at the No Nukes concert. Again, that bit of rehearsed theater: He was “too old.
When I think about Springsteen, I’m often reminded something Upton Sinclair wrote about his book “The Jungle” about the meat industry more than a century ago. He said with the book, he aimed for America’s heart and instead hit his stomach.
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