Meeting Across the River

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...reaching deep into his catalog, the spectrum of his music has rarely been more noticeable. During Friday's show, he will go from "Meeting Across the River," a dark song with sparse instrumentation, into the epic "Jungleland." "There are...

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...songs into the set, kicking off the 8-song run, and it was a treat to hear the album in its entirety -- particularly the soulful, somber "Meeting Across the River," as close to a rarity as there is on "Born to Run." But the album's boundless...

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...a heart of stone, and the sparse instrumentation at the song's opening leads to a full-on E Street party by the midsection. "Meeting Across the River": This heartbreaking song describes a shady meet-up -- potentially a drug deal -- by...

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...in the mid-'70s. Unsurprisingly, the title track and "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" earned big cheers, but album cuts "Backstreets" and "Meeting Across the River" were equally striking. If anything, the jazzy cool of the latter gave everyone a...

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...in scope. It's not a concept album, per se, but thanks to the richly drawn characters in songs like "Thunder Road," "Backstreets," "Meeting Across the River," "Born to Run" and the epic "Jungleland," it plays out like the rock 'n' roll...

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"Yoooo-woooo!" the two Springsteen fans to my left shriek, and it would drown out the gorgeous trumpet, bass, and piano rendition of "Meeting Across the River." Except that back here, 14 rows off the Spectrum floor, I'm barely hearing it...

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...notably Weinberg's timpani-style drumming and the keyboard interplay of Roy Bittan and Charles Giordano. Particularly effective was "Meeting Across the River," one of the few mood pieces of the night, with Curt Ramm's lonely trumpet and...

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Drummer Max Weinberg and bassist Garry Tallent designed a profound (for UC acoustics) Bo Diddley beat to "She's the One," and the operatic "Meeting Across the River" featured 79-year-old stand-up bassist Richard Davis, who played on the...

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...a one-time deal, so don't expect it when he comes to D.C. on Nov. 2. I'm not a Bruce set list fanatic, but it seems like "Night" and "Meeting Across the River" are really the only two songs from that album that aren't played semi-regularly.

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