I'm sitting here listening to the new Springsteen CD, DEVILS AND DUST and what do I hear but a song about a bare-knuckles boxer called "The Hitter"! I was prepared to hate this CD actually, but it won me over on the first run-through. It's remarkbaly different from NEBRAKSA and GHOST OF TOM JOAD. It makes nice use of some unsual arrangements for him.

'The Hitter' is a painfully brutal story of a bare-knuckles fighter who is passing through his hometown and talking to his mother through her door and explaining what he's been up to in the years since he left town. I'll get around to posting the lyrics some day soon.