NPR - New Springsteen Album - This aside, ‘The Boss’ seemingly became victim of what I call Beverly Hills Dwarfism - went from writing, achingly singing ‘My Home Town’ about working-class jobs “ain't coming back"--to today being tone-deaf to Trump populism while virtue-signaling about transgender restrooms --tma

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In the early 1970s, the singer-songwriter Danny O'Keefe had a "very mellow, beautiful friend," as he told Rolling Stone magazine, who'd lived too hard and was paying the consequences. Heart attacks and pain pills burdened the guy's life, and O'Keefe, himself rolling into his thirties, identified. O'Keefe told his friend's story in the ballad "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" – one of the loveliest, most soothing accounts of creeping oblivion popular music has produced. It was a hit for the Washington state-born singer-songwriter and remains a favorite for others to cover, from Elvis and Waylon Jennings to Dwight Yoakam. ...

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/26/717330166/bruce-springsteen-finds-a-new-sound-by-looking-to-the-past