We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (American Land Edition)

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Near the end of "Mrs. McGrath," a nineteenth-century Irish ballad that is the third track on Bruce Springsteen's new album, comes a couplet that gives a pretty good sense of why he's putting out an album of traditional folk music right now: "All foreign wars, I do proclaim/Live on blood and a mother's pain." We […]

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A boisterous, spirit-raising throwdown on which the Boss tackles the tangle of war, strife, poverty, and unrest without sacrificing joy or release.