#3459 Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars

3/5 there's no illusion that the protagonists of any of these ballads is Bruce himself, or that the America he's describing exists anymore. The theme is restlessness, so tuck these stories away from here. Ballads that work best when they touch on the universal (Hitch Hikin', title track). His voice is still there, well suited to these low-key ramblers, stuck in place