Bruce Springsteen Album-By-Album

A listener's guide by Rob Sheffield and the Rolling Stone staff

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The Rising (2002)

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Springsteen wades into the wreckage and pain of 9/11 and emerges bearing fifteen songs that genuflect with enormous grace before the sorrows that drift in its wake.

HIGH POINT: "My City of Ruins." A mournful ode originally written for his adopted hometown of Asbury Park seamlessly transformed into a prayer for New York in the wake of September 11th.


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