![]() He is what is known as a Tramp (after the lyric “Tramps like us, baby, we were born to run”). Wiersema is a Springsteen fan sine pari he collects bootlegs, follows Springsteen around the continent. Robert J Wiersema, a novelist, literary critic and bookseller from the western Canadian city of Victoria, has written the literary equivalent of my challenge to my wife: to know him, to understand him, you’ve got to know Springsteen’s music. Despite our musical differences, we married anyway. Her tastes went towards Brahms and baroque. ![]() And there I was: owner of countless LPs, cassettes and CDs, a prisoner of rock’n’roll, as Springsteen would say, someone who lived and breathed according to the ebb and flow of the weekly charts, who consumed music in all its forms. ![]() In fact, there’s a good chunk of popular music she can live without. It turns out my partner isn’t much of a Springsteen fan. and The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, and his breakout Born To Run the dark trilogy that followed – Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River and Nebraska the album that made him a household name from Freehold to Fujairah, Born in the USA and the only one that she really loved, Tunnel of Love. We covered the early albums – the wordy, jazzy Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Over the course of the next couple of weeks I proceeded to play, in order, the entire Springsteen catalogue. This declaration to my wife was in 1992 and, to that point, he had released nine albums and an EP (his output has more than doubled since). Before I asked my future wife to marry me, I sat her down in the living room of the apartment we were about to share and declared: “If you want to know me, you’ve got to know Bruce.”īruce is Springsteen, New Jersey’s most famous export before The Sopranos.
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