Rock and Roll Tuesday. Bruce Springsteen.

I remember about five or six years ago listening to a cut off of Born in the USA and thinking this man is a Shaman.  You know, someone whose intuitive understanding of lifes experiences is so deep that he translates it for the rest of us.  A few months later I saw him on a tv interview, saying that very thing--that he believed his role as a musician to be shamanistic.  Ever since, what I love the best about his music is his story-telling.  And how rootsy he is when he does so: you can practically hear the whole musical history of the americas in the layers of instruments he and the E street play.  And what is rock and roll, if not the pioneering, multi-layered rebel story of us?