It isn’t about soldiers going overseas, or even about war in the abstract. It is about Americans confronting Americans. It is ...

Originally published Sept. 15, 1988 in the Bergen Record. One was a wiry, white Oklahoma singer-songwriter who tapped into the struggles of those made homeless by drought and the Depression. The other ...

Bruce Springsteen’s shift away from rock and roll in the early 1980s produced one of his most introspective and haunting albums, Nebraska, and featured a song that would come to define 1980s folk rock ...

The deaths of U.S. citizens in Minneapolis and the violence ICE has perpetuated has revived a folk-music tradition from artists across genres ...

Bruce Springsteen has released an anti-ICE protest song called “Streets of Minneapolis.” Singing out on behalf of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both of whom were shot to death by federal immigration ...

The deliberately introspective, anticlimactic film examines the making of Springsteen’s haunted folk album “Nebraska.” ...

“Streets of Minneapolis” taps into a time-old tradition to rail against a modern crisis.

This story originally appeared in the Asbury Park Press on Dec 1, 1996. After meeting Bruce Springsteen backstage at the Paramount Theatre last Sunday, Asbury Park Press music writer Kelly-Jane Cotter ...