Springsteen released two more folk albums, Devils & Dust (2005) and We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006), followed by two more albums with the E Street Band: Magic (2007) and Working on a Dream (2009). Springsteen dedicated his 2002 album The Rising to the victims of the September 11 attacks. His last release of the 1990s was the EP Blood Brothers (1996). He re-assembled the E Street Band for 1995's Greatest Hits and The Ghost of Tom Joad.
Springsteen recorded his next three albums, Tunnel of Love (1987), Human Touch (1992), and Lucky Town (1992), using mostly session musicians. Seven of its singles reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the title track. (1984), which reunited Springsteen with the E Street Band, became his most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums of all time. His first album without the E Street Band was Nebraska (1982). It was followed by Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978) and The River (1980), which topped the US Billboard 200 chart. He changed his style and reached worldwide popularity with Born to Run in 1975. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, neither of which earned him a large audience. In 1973, Springsteen released his first two albums, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. During a career that has spanned six decades, Springsteen has become known for his poetic, socially conscious lyrics and energetic stage performances, sometimes lasting up to four hours in length. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he is one of the originators of the heartland rock style of music, combining mainstream rock musical style with narrative songs about working class American life. He has released 20 studio albums, many of which feature his backing band, the E Street Band. Then, as he puts it: "I ended up getting off completely clean … just lost three months of my life.Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Oli Firth spent three months in Broken Hill Correctional Centre. It brings people together." 'A helpful creative force' He adds: "I am a firm believer that music is the greatest healer of the soul. Why can't you see what's happening? When it's you I need the most." There's no use in crying, if you ain't gonna try. "Waiting here in the shadow land, wishing time would pass by. When asked about the song, he reads some lyrics. He says he's been working on a song called Shadow Lands, which is about loneliness, or what he calls "the biggest social problem out there". Ivor Thomas travels in for the workshops from across Sydney. There's ex-sex workers from Kings Cross, people who are homeless, people who are living in housing commissions," Mr Cook says.
"It's such a diverse group of people, different ages, nationalities and levels of experience. Here, music is brought to some of the city's less privileged residents. 'Childhood sweethearts' reunited by chance.The parents who say it's time to rethink how we're raising girls.'A form of terrorism': Online anti-women groups are radicalising boys, experts say.Kaya Wilson's 'empowering' near-death experience.Songbirds is also run out in the community, with Mr Cook holding weekly lessons at Ozanam Learning Centre in Sydney's Woolloomooloo. The program is currently only in NSW, but there are similar initiatives which bring music to prisons in other states and territories. "Like I always say to people in jail, music is a great way of letting off steam without hurting anyone, … I think the core of this is the personal transformation that comes through music," Mr Cook says. He recalls one of the most memorable lyrics he's heard: "The outside world is like a pearl. Another was all about apologising to a wife on the outside.
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Some program participants have gone on to become roadies for bands and others have been invited to perform on singing reality TV competition The Voice.Īsked about some more memorable songs over the years, Mr Cook mentions one from a young Indigenous man who was about to get out, but knew there would be no-one to meet him at the gate. Inmates are encouraged to keep up their music, both in prison and when they get out. That's a huge thing for them and for me too," Mr Cook says. Sometimes there's these big, tough guys covered in tatts you see the tears in their eyes because they've never been praised. " I'll say, 'You've done really well, congratulations,' and shake their hands.
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