You'll be happy to hear that he's solidly back down to earth.  Full text...

Devils and Dust, the new studio album from Bruce Springsteen, is a collection of songs so vibrantly rendered that one does not listen to them so much as one lives them.  Full text...

To truly understand the power of Bruce Springsteen's newest disc, Devils & Dust, one need only listen to its final track. The song, "Matamoros Banks", contains all of the contradictions that make this -- his 13th studio effort - such an emotionally resonating collection.   Full text...

Bruce Springsteen is in a rennaisance of late middle age.  Full text...

what this record sounds most like is one of America’s greatest living songwriters offering us a dozen fine new stories, and leaving it up to us to make what we will of them. And in spite of its shortcomings, Devils & Dust is an offering most Springsteen fans would do well to accept.   Full text...

It is too early to say whether Devils and Dust possesses the mythic potency that characterises Springsteen's greatest albums, but there is a warmth and humanity here that bodes well.  Full text...

Devils & Dust is remarkably self-contained and perfectly linear: here is the aftermath of The Rising, when the plains go quiet, the windows shut and we pray, pause, and plot our next move.  Full text...

As a result, Dust is that odd record that, however likeable on the surface, never quite sounds completely at home in its own skin.  Full text...

"Devils & Dust" is a powerful, if slightly uneven, slice of Americana that demands a few listens to soak in.  Full text...

Shame that the guy who gave us "Born To Run" thirty years ago in November, seems to have run out of steam.  Full text...