Bruce Springsteen songs (Music Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 84. Chapters: Rosalita, 4th of July, Asbury Park, Old Dan Tucker, Chimes of Freedom, Born in the U.S.A., The Rising, Racing in the Street, This Land Is Your Land, Born to Run, Youngstown, Because the Night, Streets of Philadelphia, The Ghost of Tom Joad, Pink Cadillac, War, I'm on Fire, See See Rider, Dancing in the Dark, Waitin' on a Sunny Day, Thunder Road, Mystery Train, Radio Nowhere, Hungry Heart, Viva Las Vegas, Spirit in the Night, Love of the Common People, Cover Me, Tougher Than the Rest, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Brilliant Disguise, When Will I Be Loved, Stolen Car, Tunnel of Love, The River, It's My Life, Glory Days, Nebraska, Badlands, Jersey Girl, One Step Up, Lonesome Day, Johnny 99, Bobby Jean, Working on a Dream, Atlantic City, Blinded by the Light, Fade Away, The Wrestler, Girls in Their Summer Clothes, Devils & Dust, Spare Parts, Lost in the Flood, Jungleland, My Hometown, I'm Goin' Down, She's the One, Sad Eyes, Backstreets, Good Golly Miss Molly, Mrs. McGrath, Highway Patrolman, Prove It All Night, Meeting Across the River, My City of Ruins, Wreck on the Highway, For You, The New Timer, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out, It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City, The Angel, Human Touch, Independence Day, Out in the Street, Light of Day, Protection, The Ties That Bind, Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?, Long Walk Home, Mary Queen of Arkansas, Downbound Train, Working on the Highway, Secret Garden, Growin' Up, No Surrender, Darlington County, Open All Night, Merry Christmas Baby, A Night with the Jersey Devil, How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?, Ramrod, Pay Me My Money Down, 57 Channels, Street Hassle, My Lucky Day, The Fever, Man at the Top, Raise Your Hand, American Skin, You're Missing. Excerpt: "Old Dan Tucker", also known as "Ole Dan Tucker", "Dan Tucker", and other variants, is a popular American song. Its origins remain obscure; the tune may have come from oral tradition, and the words may have been written by songwriter and performer Dan Emmett. The blackface troupe the Virginia Minstrels popularized "Old Dan Tucker" in 1843, and it quickly became a minstrel hit, behind only "Miss Lucy Long" and "Mary Blane" in popularity during the antebellum period. "Old Dan Tucker" entered the folk vernacular around the same time. Today it is a bluegrass and country music standard. The first sheet music edition of "Old Dan Tucker", published in 1843, is a song of boasts and nonsense in the vein of previous minstrel hits such as "Jump Jim Crow" and "Gumbo Chaff". In exaggerated Black Vernacular English, the lyrics tell of Dan Tucker's exploits in a strange town, where he fights, gets drunk, overeats, and breaks other social taboos. Minstrel troupes freely added and removed verses, and folk singers have since added hundreds more. Parodies and political versions are also known. The song falls into the idiom of previous minstrel music, relying on rhythm and text declamation as its primary motivation. Its melody is simple and the harmony little developed. Nevertheless, contemporary critics found the song more pleasant than previous minstrel fare. Musicologist Dale Cockrell argues that the song represents a transition between early minstrel music and the more European-style songs of minstrelsy's later years. This 1877 illustration from Scribner's Magazine shows the Dan Tucker character as a rural black man."Old Dan Tucker" as originally published exemplifies th...