Springsteen on Springsteen by Jeff Burger

Author:Jeff Burger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2013-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

BRUCE BIT

On His Musical Influences

“My late twenties, all of a sudden country music became really important and particularly Hank Williams because his writing was so great, the imagery was so stark, dramatic—just raw. And I wanted to use classic American images. Great rock music was the cars, the girls, Saturday night. I wanted to address all those things in my own way, but I also wanted to include the country references and a sense of geography of the country, a sense of location, a sense of place that the characters would grow out of.

“Somebody asked me the difference between rock and roll and country music. Well, rock and roll was Saturday night; country music was Sunday morning. Rock and roll was the freedom and come Sunday you’re left with the consequences—freedom always has its consequences and the price you’re gonna pay for it. So I wanted my music to be the Saturday night—that exhilaration, that freedom of spirit—but I wanted the consequences, too. I wanted to address that these things all have a price. And I also wanted Monday through Friday, the workweek, because that’s where people spend so much of their time. I wanted to try and develop a vocabulary and a body of work that would address the whole thing.”

—unaired TV interview with Ian “Molly” Meldrum, April 1995

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