Bruce Springsteen Sings the Alphabet

About Bruce Springsteen Sings the Alphabet

Bruce Springsteen Sings the Alphabet is a podcast that explores every Bruce Springsteen song in alphabetical order. alphabeticalspringsteen.substack.com (https://alphabeticalspringsteen.substack.com/s/the-podcast?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

JB Clark

Category

music · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Apr 2019

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

12 of 112 episodes have a transcript.

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   12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 9 | Downbound Train

   Host Rob and guest Dave Marsh analyze Bruce Springsteen's "Downbound Train," exploring its musical arrangements and lyrical themes.

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   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 8 | “Working on the Highway”

   Host [Host Name] and guest [Guest Name] explore the themes of love, work, and songwriting in Bruce Springsteen's "Working on the Highway."

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   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 7 | “Darlington County”

   Hosts [Host Name] and [Guest Name] explore the narrative and musicality of Bruce Springsteen's "Darlington County," questioning its lasting impact.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 9 | Downbound Train

Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But like this is what it feels like to be a member of an economic model or of a government or of any sort of organization where you're like your access to health care or housing or food or whatever it is, you know, are are not a given is at some point you look up and you're like, it kind of doesn't matter what I do. If three people make a decision today, that's going to affect. me you know what i mean like that's gonna that's gonna decide whether i got a place to live next month or whatever for most people like in america and uh that is that is the thing that this song is that's the haunting of it you know it's like the synth in this song is not the decisions he gets to make the synth in the song is the decisions everyone else made for him yeah The ghosts and maybe the haunting is the ghosts of all the alternate paths that he wishes his life had taken. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

124 ratings

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