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The version of the song that was released on the album was recorded on May 6, 1982, at the Power Station, at the end of the "Electric Nebraska" sessions. [1] [5] [6] Although "Working on the Highway" was not one of the seven Born in the U.S.A. songs to
The song was recorded on May 6, 1982 at the Power Station at the end of the "Electric Nebraska" sessions. [1] [5] [6] Like several other Born in the U.S.A. songs, including "Working on the Highway" and the title track, a solo acoustic version of "Downbound Train" was originally recorded on the demo that eventually became the Nebraska album.
During the 1999 Reunion Tour, the song was performed frequently. It has remained popular in concert, and is often paired with "Working on the Highway" in performance. When performing the song live, Springsteen frequently plays the first few bars of the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" before the first verse. [2] [3]
"Highwayman" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history: as a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker on the Hoover Dam, and finally as a captain of a starship.
The verses that generally constitute the modern version of the song are: [4] I've been working on the railroad All the live-long day. I've been working on the railroad Just to pass the time away. Can't you hear the whistle blowing, Rise up so early in the morn; Can't you hear the captain shouting, "Dinah, blow your horn!" Dinah, won't you blow,
"The Wrestler" is the title song from the 2008 film The Wrestler. The track was written and performed by Bruce Springsteen.. The origins of the song are based in a lost and resumed friendship between Springsteen and Wrestler lead actor Mickey Rourke; Rourke told Springsteen about his upcoming film and asked if Springsteen could write a song for it. [1]
"Working on a Dream" is a song by Bruce Springsteen, released in 2008 as the title track and first single from his sixteenth studio album of the same name (2009). It won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards .
Simpson was working at the Wagon Wheel in Lamont when Fuzzy Owen saw him and arranged for Simpson to work at his Clover Club as a piano player. He then got a job replacing Buck Owens at the Blackboard Club on weekends. Simpson was influenced by Owens, Merle Haggard and Bill Woods, who asked Red if he would write a song about driving trucks. (By ...