Bruce Springsteen: Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Columbia)
Mitchell Cohen, Creem, September 1978
If I walk away from this, he thought, I'll be an old man – all ghosts and hangovers and mellow recollections. Fuck it, he thought, follow the blood. This is the one. This is the one to ride till it crashes.
– Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers
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