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Bruce Springsteen came out of New Jersey in the early 1970s sounding like a cross between Bob Dylan and early Tom Waits, backed by the rambunctious...
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Tough-Guy MolassesLOCATION: Lincoln Park , ChicagoYEAR: 2004TAGS: Springsteen, ChicagoPUBLISHED: April 4, 2008When I lived in Chicago, everyone always told me not to go out at night. I even took a mini safety course in which a security guard taught us girls how to start up an imaginary phone conversation with an imaginary man if we saw anyone suspicious. Despite all the warnings, I was living the crazy sleepless life of a student and sometimes I just needed to walk, even if it was 1 AM. I developed a passable rationale: if any rapists got to me, I’d be doing a public service, sacrificing myself so that no other unsuspecting woman would be raped that night. I often went out with my headphones—music is another late night taboo—and walked briskly through Lincoln Park’s residential streets. I discovered “Darkness on the Edge of Town” on one of these walks. The youthful vigor of Springsteen’s music kept me walking and I relished the way the song dripped with that all-knowing, brutal-truth molasses that allowed tough guys like Petty and Seger to get away with Romanticism. Luckily, I never encountered any rapists. No one even followed me home until I moved to rural Iowa and decided to go walking at 4 AM.
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