I dunno. I'm sure Springsteen's a decent bloke but I always find he seems to be trying a bit too hard. I saw this TV show where he played the songs off the Seeger record. He had a huge band with something like 5 acoustic rhythm guitars (including his missus who can't play for toffee) and every song had that trademark Springsteen 'lean yer head back and yell as hard as you can from yer throat' vocal. The token 'Oirish' number was just embarassing. I saw the whole 'I know I'm a rock star but let's get a really down-home acoustic band together and play american folk music together' thing done much better by John Mellencamp in a tribute program to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly about 15 years ago. It helped that Mellencamp could actually sing. Mind you, the highlight of the show was Little Richard singing 'Rock Island Line' which was one of the most mental things I've ever heard.

Sorry folks. Bruce may be the boss. He's just not mine.