Title: Gigantic, exhilerating music
Product review: Springsteen's "Willd, the Innocent, and the E-Street Shuffle" suggests that Bruce could have gone in any of a dozen directions early in his career. Most of the time, he comes on as a highly electrified and energetic version of Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks"-era soulster; he spins lengthy narratives that lack the stark, economical power of his later work but which contain intricasies that he began to sheer away as he reached for a pop audience. The music here is broad, sometimes jazzy, sometimes hard-rocking, other times folky. Here, Springsteen paints with a broader musical and lyrical pallate than he ever would again. He and his band play with the fervor of true rock 'n' roll revivalists and he sings like his throat's on fire.
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