I have seen folk future and its name is Bruce Springsteen

David Hepworth from the UK publication "The Word" wrote a great article praising the Seeger Sessions and their performance at Wembley Arena in November.

He brings up a great point that I've seen echoed around the newsgroups and that is, does it matter what group of musicians Springsteen plays with or is he just THAT great a band leader that he can take any group of musicians and turn them into the ensemble we've all seen during this tour?

Hepworth writes:

"there may be better singers, songwriters and guitarists than Bruce Springsteen but nobody, and I do mean nobody, no, better make that NOBODY leads a band like this man. He takes a bunch of musicians and forges them into something more. It's difficult to see anyone else having the imagination or the ear to put together a line-up like the one above in order to light the mother and father of a campfire under the work songs, gospel hymns, playground chants, broadside ballads and railroad songs that Pete Seeger reintroduced into the American mainstream in the '50S."

It's pretty controversial for the die-hard fans screaming for an E Street record but after seeing the show in Paris this year and seeing the making of Born To Run video, Springsteen really is the master choreographer and everyone else does what he says...witness the insane number of hours Clarence was in the booth for the sax solo on Born to Run...just another example of Springsteen's need for near perfection (and, by the way, his ability to get it).

Thanks to ValHall for posting the article on BTX.