
Fresh from a 2 month break, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band have resumed their world tour in support of the critically acclaimed album Magic released in October 2007.
The first show is starred by a surprise opening of 'so young and in love', as well as 'Loose Ends' which surfaced on the Tracks box set in the late 90's.
Set List from Hartford CT.
1. So Young And In Love
2. Radio Nowhere
3. Lonesome Day
4. Gypsy Biker
5. Magic
6. Reason To Believe
7. Loose Ends
8. She's The One
9. Living In The Future
10. The Promised Land
11. Waiting On A Sunny Day
12. Janey, Don't You Lose Heart
13. The River14. Devil's Arcade
15. The Rising
16. Last To Die
17. Long Walk Home
18. Badlands
19. Girls In Their Summer Clothes
20. Backstreets
21. Kitty's Back
22. Born To Run
23. American Land
Press
Much of Springsteen's 23-song set, though, was about what happens when reality overtakes dreams. He sounded a note of walled-off desperation on "The River," and tried to make sense of crumbling love on "Loose Ends." He reprised the chilling, bone-weary political allegory "Magic," with Soozie Tyrell adding mournful violin and harmony vocals, and murmured about a power both seductive and dark on "Devil's Arcade."
Eric Danton Hartford Courant