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Bruce Springsteen Opens Toronto Show With a Rallying Cry ‘for My Country,’ Then Lets the Music Do the Talking: Concert Review
Bruce Springsteen opened his Wednesday Toronto concert with a 'fighting' comment about the election, and then let his songs speak for him.
The one-two punch of “Darkness on the Edge of Town”’s “Candy’s Room” and “Adam Raised a Cain” have occupied the same space since 1978: tales of teenage lust and filial conflict, but they are also barnburners ideal for working out some anger and frustration via his battered vintage guitar. The tour’s established themes of life and aging and mortality, as discussed in “Road Diary,” were still present, with newer songs from 2022’s “Letter to You” mixed with material from the entirety of his career, going back as far as 1973 for “The E Street Shuffle” and its horn arrangements and jazz-influenced rhythms. Based on the initial ragged response, it seems that this had not been discussed in advance, but the E Street Band got it together and thus Toronto was treated to an early “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” although it was not the earliest of this year: that honor went to a particularly rain-drenched crowd in Cork, Ireland in May.)
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