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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform in 2016 in D.C.
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Springsteen’s Early Struggles Reveal How the Music Industry Has Changed

The album was once king. Now it’s the live show.
by Jim Cullen via Made By History on January 5, 2023
A collage of the covers of famous EPs.

The Little-Known Legacy of the EP

“An Ideal for Living” explores the fascinating backstory of a mini music format.
by Steven Heller via Print on June 4, 2024
Miles Davis.

Not Not Jazz

When Miles Davis went electric in the late 1960s, he overhauled his thinking about songs, genres, and what it meant to lead a band.
by Ben Ratliff via New York Review of Books on January 13, 2024
Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen .
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How the American Suburbs Created Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel

The musical culture of the New York metropolitan area, combined with themes of suburban life, suffuse the legends' music.
by Jim Cullen via Made By History on October 13, 2023
Bruce Springsteen performing live onstage during the Born In the U.S.A. tour.

Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A. Captured Two Sides of Reagan’s America

Springsteen's albums offer a tragic-romantic view of the working class in Reagan-era America.
by William Harris via Jacobin on October 10, 2023
Illustration of McCormick at his desk, hunched over a typewriter.

Hellhounds on His Trail

Mack McCormick’s long, tortured quest to find the real Robert Johnson.
by Michael Hall via Texas Monthly on April 4, 2023
1901 photograph of Frederick T. Cummins and three Native American men at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The men’s names, as given by the inscription, are: White Hawk, Left Hand Bear, and Chief Black Heart

Playing Indian: Cummins’ Indian Congress at Coney Island

The Coney Island “Congress,” supposedly captured here in audio, was a conglomeration of counterfeits.
by Kevin Dann via The Public Domain Review on November 2, 2022
Photograph of blues singer Robert Johnson, playing guitar, 1936.

Searching for Robert Johnson

In the seven decades since his mysterious death, bluesman Robert Johnson’s legend has grown.
by Frank DiGiacomo via Vanity Fair on October 1, 2008

Mystic Nights

The making of “Blonde on Blonde” in Nashville, Tennessee.
by Sean Wilentz via Oxford American on September 20, 2007

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