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To: Chi-townChief
But Springsteen's hard-rockin' reworking of Blind Alfred Reed's "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live" continues to be an emotional cornerstone of the set.

Springsteen added his own post-Katrina lyrics to the 1929 blues song that reflected on the Great Depression.

Blind Alfred Reed was not a blues singer, the song was not blues, and it's tough to reflect on the "Great Depression" a month after the Wall Street crash.

8 posted on 06/15/2006 3:55:38 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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To: Fresh Wind
Blind Alfred Reed was not a blues singer, the song was not blues, and it's tough to reflect on the "Great Depression" a month after the Wall Street crash.

Yeah, but other than that the paragraph was pretty much spot on...

LOL
19 posted on 06/15/2006 4:32:09 AM PDT by NonLinear (He's dead, Jim)
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