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American Song

American Song

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American Song is a podcast that traces the origins and development of American - and ultimately world-wide - forms of modern musical entertainment. Over time, we will trace every major genre from its origins through the current day.American Song looks at the development of our music through the lens of social, political, and economic changes that were occurring in each case, and we'll feature the most important musicians in each genre.Every episode is chock-full of the music we love and where possible, we include archival interviews so you can hear about, in the actual words and voices of these great musicians and singers, the motives and passions that drove their creativity.

© 2025 American Song
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  • Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Part Five - Last Man Standing
    Nov 9 2025

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    Part Five starts with a funeral and a realization: when Bruce's friend and former Castile's band mate, George Theiss, dies, Bruce becomes the last man left from his teenage band. That shock pushes him into Springsteen on Broadway, Western Stars, and Letter to You—projects that ask what kind of ancestor, and what kind of citizen, you want to be when you’re running out of time.

    We follow him into those late-career marathon shows and finally to a 2025 European stage, where he calls out a "incompetent, corrupt, and treasonous administration" and then sings about hope, duty, and “we the people” anyway.

    This final chapter ties Bruce back to everyone we’ve studied in 2025 on American Song—including Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon and Jackson Browne —and makes the subtext plain: if we want a better America, we’re going to have to live up to the American values embodied in the songs of the artists we say we admire.


    Music In This Episode: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

    • My City of Ruins
    • Shackled and Drawn
    • Rocky Ground
    • Sundown
    • Hello Sunshine
    • Last Man Standing
    • One Minute You're Here
    • The Power of Prayer
    • Long Walk Home
    • We Shall Overcome

    Archival Interviews

    • Rick Rubin/ Malcolm Gladwell



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    46 Min.
  • Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Part Four - Breakups, Ghosts, and Trump’s America
    Nov 9 2025

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    Part Four is where the story cuts close to the bone. Bruce lets the E Street Band go, stares down his own failures on Tunnel of Love, and writes The Ghost of Tom Joad for the people that some Americans prefer not to see: migrants, the unemployed, the left-behind.

    The band reunites, “American Skin (41 Shots)” forces a conversation about race and fear, and The Rising and Wrecking Ball turn grief and economic anger into something like a shared civic ritual. We carry all of that forward into Trump’s first administration and Charlottesville, and we hold Bruce’s choices up as a different model of Americanness—one where loving your country means telling it the truth and standing with the people it’s hurting, even when that costs you.

    Music in This Episode: Bruce Springsteen (With and Without) the E Street Band

    • Tunnel of Love
    • Human Touch
    • Living Proof
    • The Ghost of Tom Joad
    • Theme from Ken Burns 'The Civil War'*
    • The Price You Pay**
    • American Skin (41 Shots)
    • This Land Is Your Land

    Archival Interviews

    • Rick Rubin/ Malcolm Gladwell
    • Mark Maron
    • Howard Stern
    • Bank Street Podcast


    *As performed by my second cousin, Molly Hines of Wilmington, NC. A massively talented violinist, during our family reunion in Yellowstone National Park; Summer, 2025. Thank you, Molly! Visit https://www.mollyjhines.com/

    ** E Street Band backing track; no vocals.

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    51 Min.
  • Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Part Three: Darkness, The River, Nebraska, and Berlin ’88
    Nov 9 2025

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    Factories closing, marriages cracking, the glitter of the ’80s hiding a lot of hurt—Part 3 lives right in that gap between the American dream and the American day-to-day. Bruce digs into Darkness, The River, and Nebraska, writing about people who rarely get a mic: laid-off workers, young couples in over their heads, neighbors hanging on by their fingernails. Then Born in the U.S.A. turns into a worldwide roar, and politicians try to strip the songs of their doubts and their compassion. We end in East Berlin, 1988, with Springsteen singing to a divided crowd about freedom and walls coming down, and we ask: what if this kind of complicated, honest patriotism was the version we measured ourselves against instead of the cheap, loud kind?


    Music in this Episode: Bruce Spingsteen (With and Without) the E Street Band

    • I Fought the Law - Live
    • Badlands
    • The Promised Land
    • Prove it All Night - Live from Hammersmith Odeon. 1978
    • The Ties That Bind
    • The River album medley: Point Blank/ The River/ Hungry Heart/ Cadillac Ranch/ I'm a Rocker/ Drive All Night
    • Atlantic City
    • Johnny 99
    • Born in the USA
    • Born in the USA Nebraska era demo
    • Downbound Train
    • Dancing in the Dark
    • Chimes of Freedom - Live in East Berlin 1988

    Archival Interviews

    • Letter to You era interview
    • NPR/ Loren Anki - Born in the USA
    • NPR/ Terry Gross


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    52 Min.
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