With (2002), inspired by the attacks of 11 September 2001 , American rocker Bruce Springsteen was able to deliver a grand and evocative record for the first time in years. The renewed collaboration he entered into for this CD with his legendary has now ended. Like any great artist, Springsteen knows that sticking to a tried and true recipe is deadly. Not that he is taking a completely different
… path on Devils & Dust - musically it harks back to earlier albums like and - but the record differs from its predecessor. Twelve narrative songs about 'people who are in danger of losing their soul', as he himself puts it in the interview on the bonus DVD. The songs are more melancholic in tone, the instrumentation is largely acoustic, while the strings of the prominent. So no new 'anthems', which can be sung en masse during the stadium concerts, but the form that Springsteen found with The Rising he keeps with the excellent Devils & Dust. (MS)more