Album Review: Bruce Springsteen - Chapter & Verse

16 September 2016 | 3:17 pm | Ross Clelland

"Most of the songs that define his revered status are present."

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This album is the companion piece to His Bossness' upcoming autobiography, which largely works as a beginners guide to the music, if needed.

Most of the songs that define his revered status are present: the Dylan-esque word tumbles of early on, through Born To Run's epic sweep, onto the battler's anthems he keeps pouring everything into - Tom Joad, Wrecking Ball, and so on. The hook for the hardcore Bruceophiles is early works from his teenage bands like The Castiles and Steel Mill - but regrettably not the grandly named Dr Zoom & The Sonic Boom - which show the precocious kid was listening to The Beatles, Stones, and old soul and blues records much like everybody else.