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Review: Bruce Springsteen makes 'the most of right now' to open tour in Tampa

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rocked like their lives depended on it.

In a way, it did. Mortality, and its motivational properties, were a central theme in the opening show of the band's 2023 world tour Wednesday at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.

Springsteen performed a poignant solo acoustic “Last Man Standing” from the band's 2020 album, “Letter to You.” He introduced it with the story of the 2018 death of George Theiss , the Boss' bandmate in the Castiles of Freehold.

“His passing would leave me as the last surviving member of my first band, so it's kind of like standing on the tracks with the hot light of an oncoming train bearing down on you,” Springsteen said. “It brings a clarity of thought and a purpose that you might have not previously experienced.

“At 15, it's all tomorrows. At 73, it's a lot of goodbyes,” Springsteen said. “That's why you have to make the most of right now.”

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Right now, after two runs of “Springsteen on Broadway," and downtime due to COVID-19, it's time to rock. The Springsteen classics abounded on Wednesday. “Candy’s Room” segued into “Kitty’s Back,” and after the lights came on, “Born to Run” was followed by “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).”

Earlier in the show, “Backstreets” was followed by “Because the Night,” complete with an incendiary Nils Lofgren guitar solo.

The E Street Band is big and powerful, with 19 members that included a horn section and choir, who laid down some of the smoothest harmonies heard on “Nightshift,” the Commodores cover from Springsteen's 2022 soul-themed album, “Only the Strong Survive.” It's another song that deals with loss (Marin Gaye and Jackie Wilson). The Boss’ crushed-velvet tenor was enhanced by the silken backup provided by Anthony Almonte, Curtis King, Michelle Moore, Lisa Lowell and Ada Dyer.

On the instruments, Mighty Max Weinberg is still very mighty, and bassist Garry Tallent powers up with soul and rock rhythms. Keyboardists Roy Bittan and Charles Giordano provide spark and sparkle. Little Steven Van Zandt lays key guitar leads, and Soozie Tyrell lends sweet harmonies and sweet fiddle strings.

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Patti Scialfa, Springsteen’s wife, engaged in playful back and forth with the Boss, and added vocal accents. Jake Clemons, the late Clarence Clemons’ nephew, charged up the arena on his solos. He's a natural showman, and it seemed a shame to keep him at the back of the stage with the horn section for most of the night. Clemons, by the way, uses his uncle’s saxophone on stage.

“Anyway I get to experience my pop’s presence is special to me,” said Jarod Clemons, Clarence’s youngest son who was at the show. “It’s so beautiful to hear that horn again. It’s like the sound never left.”

Near the end of the show, Springsteen and the band paid tribute to The Big Man with a video during “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.”

E Street fans love horns, and Curt Ramm and Barry Danielian on trumpet; Eddie Manion on sax; and Ozzie Melendez on trombone are among the best in the business. Their play with Clemons on “Kitty's Back” and “Johnny 99” soared.

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Bittan led the band from an entrance tunnel in the middle of the stage at 8 p.m. Van Zandt, who has dropped considerable weight since the last tour, doffed his flared Spanish hat at the crowd.

Springsteen came out last to the loudest cheers: “Bruuuuuce!”

The band then charged into the “Born in the U.S.A.”-era hit “No Surrender” to start the show.

Up next for the tour is Friday at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, then it's back to Florida for two shows: Sunday at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, and Tuesday at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood.

Wednesday's concert was two hours and 45 minutes of revved-up rock, soul and remembrance, performed by a group that's not ready to say goodbye.

They're making the most of the right now.

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• No Surrender
• Prove It All Night
• Letter To You
• The Promised Land
• Out in the Street
• Candy's Room
• Kitty's Back
• Brilliant Disguise
• Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
• The E Street Shuffle
• Last Man Standing
• House of a Thousand Guitars
• Backstreets
• Because the Night
• She's the One
• Wrecking Ball
• Burnin' Train
• Born to Run
• Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
• Dancing in the Dark
• Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
• I'll See You in My Dreams

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Reveal 2023 North American Tour Dates

By Michele Amabile Angermiller

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s long-awaited North American tour is set to launch Feb. 1, 2023, in Tampa, Florida, the band announced today. The two-and-a-half-month tour will unfold with 31 shows in the U.S., continuing through a home-state finale on April 14 in Newark, New Jersey, before the group heads to Europe for already announced overseas dates that will continue into July.

The outing is the band’s first since wrapping the 14-month worldwide “River Tour” in Australia in 2017 and Springsteen’s first tour in the U.S. since 2016. See the complete itinerary, below.

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All of the dates announced are one-night arena stands, with the exception of two nights booked for the UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY as the penultimate stop on the U.S. tour April 9 and 11. The New York/New Jersey area is well-represented with further dates at Madison Square Garden April 1 and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center April 3, leading up to the final night April 14 at New Jersey’s Prudential Center.

Tickets for the U.S. shows go on sale later this month, with on-sale dates ranging from July 20 to July 29.

The 2023 European dates already surpassed one million tickets sold on the initial routing, with shows added across the continent in anticipation of the band’s return to the road next year. Popular demand has seen Springsteen and the E Street Band add second stadium dates in Barcelona (April 28 and 30), Paris (May 13 and 15), Amsterdam (May 25 and 27) and Oslo (June 30 and July 2), while third shows have been scheduled for Dublin (May 5, 7, 9) and Gothenburg (June 24, 26, 28). With the milestone in ticket sales, a new tour stop has also been added in Hockenheim, Germany for July 21. Shows in the U.K. and Belgium will be announced at a later date.

The last live appearance by the band was an appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in December 2020 in support of the album, “Letter to You.”

Said Springsteen: “After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year. And I’m looking forward to once again sharing the stage with the legendary E Street Band. See you out there, next year — and beyond.”

In May, Springsteen phoned in to SiriusXM’s E Street Radio to talk about what fans can expect.

“It doesn’t feel that long” since the band last toured, he told host Jim Rotolo. “We’ve stayed busy over that time but still I have got the jones to play live very badly at this point, so I am deeply looking forward to getting out there in front of our fans.”

Rehearsals will start in January, and that full-fledged tour will stretch out to Australia and New Zealand following the August U.S. stadium dates and come “back around again,” he teased.

“It’s been a while and I am just aching to play — not just play but to travel and see our fans in all our different cities and feel that life again, see their faces again,” he said. “We’ve got an old-school tour planned where we will be out there for quite a while and give everybody a chance to see us if they would like to. We are going to rehearse in January — I already wrote out set lists, just to have something to do,” he added, noting that the setlist “will have a significant amount of recent material, and then we will play a lot of the music that the fans have become familiar with and love to hear. Should be a balance — feel contemporary and at home at the same time.”

In 2021, Springsteen, 72, released the group’s “The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts” film, collaborated with President Barack Obama on the book “Renegades: Born in the USA” and reprised his “Springsteen on Broadway” show to help reopen New York City’s theaters last summer. Just this spring and summer, he made three live appearances: two at MetLife Stadium on two separate occasions in New Jersey with Paul McCartney (June 16) and Coldplay (June 5) , and with McCartney again at the Glastonbury Festival in London.

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Inside Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s Return to the Stage: The 6 Best Moments From Phoenix

After a six-month break, half of it unintentional, Springsteen opened the new leg of his tour in Arizona, where he showed he was in peak form.

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Bruce is back. 

If there was any doubt that Bruce Springsteen hadn’t fully recovered from the peptic ulcer disease that caused him to postpone 29 dates on his world tour with the E Street Band last fall, he dispensed of that notion within minutes of taking the stage Tuesday (March 19) at Phoenix’s Footprint Center for the first time in six months.

The Boss, clad in a red and black checkered shirt with rolled-up sleeves and black jeans, was in top form from show opener “Lonesome Day” and fully had his sea legs back by third song, “No Surrender,” when he gave his first trademark shout out, “C’mon, Steve!” beckoning for his brother-in-music for over half a century, Steven Van Zandt, to join him on the mic.  

For more than 50 years, Springsteen’s live shows have been about two things above and beyond the superb musical performance: Feeling alive and trusting in the communion between the Boss and his fans. 

For longtime fans such as myself (I’ve seen more than 50 shows over more than 30 years), a Springsteen concert is one of the places where we feel most vibrant. There’s the unbridled joy of hearing the music that has given meaning and voice to our life experiences in the company of likeminded souls. For many of us, Springsteen has been the best traveling companion through life imaginable. Part of that also comes from the trusting communion at any show: there’s the implicit understanding that Springsteen is going to take care of us and entertain us during that concert the best way he can—by pouring everything he has into the performance— and, in return, we’re going to send that energy back to the stage by being as present as we can be. 

That’s why when he postponed nearly 30 shows after his Sept. 3 dates at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. because of his illness, fans feared that this could be the end. Even though he has long prided himself on being in superhuman physical condition (and proved he still is in Phoenix by ripping his shirt open to show his toned chest), at 74, it’s clear that the road will end eventually for Springsteen. But as Tuesday night showed, he’s returned at the top of his game and the end feels far into the future if he wants it to be (though for longtime fans, it hasn’t gone unnoticed that on this tour Springsteen does not end the shows with his former trademark line, “We’ll be seein’ you.”)

When this world tour started in February 2023, Springsteen was working a theme built around “Last Man Standing,” an emotional song featured on his underrated 2020 album,  Letter to You . Like on the earlier shows on the tour, Springsteen addressed the Phoenix audience (in this case, for the first time all night more than an hour in), giving a beautiful speech about playing in his first band, The Castiles, when he was 15 in the mid-‘60s, and how more than 50 years later, he stood by the bedside of his friend and bandmate George Theiss, as he lay dying, leaving Springsteen the last member of the band alive. It’s a reflection on mortality, but also on resilience and joy. Though he’s never spoken of death and the gift it brings the living from stage so eloquently before, it’s understood by fans. For example, after my mother died, I consoled myself by going to as many shows as I could on the consecutive  Magic  and  Working on a Dream  tours because standing in the pit of a Springsteen show was where I felt most alive. 

Unlike the setlists from earlier shows that seemed slightly more reflective and wide-ranging, Tuesday’s show was a high-octane freight train of a rock show. The message is that life is to be savored and, more than anything, celebrated and met head on at full-speed. Springsteen and the band barreled through 29 songs, most of them full-on rockers, in 2 hours and 45 minutes. The show felt nothing if not efficient. There was no fat. The only break between songs was the few seconds it took for Springsteen to change guitars and, other than a few asides, he only addressed the audience for the speech before “Last Man Standing” and after “Backstreets.” He never brought up his illness until right before the closing song when he apologized to anyone inconvenienced by the Phoenix date shifting from Nov. 30 to March 19, adding, “I had a mother**ker of a bellyache.”

Below are six of the highlights from the Phoenix show, which had former N.J. governor Chris Christie and rocker Alice Cooper in attendance, in an evening filled with nothing but stellar moments . (Christie, by the way, said it was his 153rd Springsteen show!)

One-Two Punch of “Last Man Standing” and “Backstreets”

As mentioned above, the emotional centerpiece of the evening was when Springsteen talked about George Theiss and the revelation that he was now the last man from the band still alive and was, therefore, the keeper of the flame. “[Death] brings with it a certain clarity of thought. Death’s final and lasting gift to us the living is we get an expanded vision of the life you can live yourself,” he said, introducing “Last Man Standing.” He performed the song under a solo spotlight, otherwise bathed in darkness—even the lights lining the lip of the stage were turned off. From there the band perfectly segued into a haunting, majestic version of “Backstreets,” which looks back at Springsteen and his friend Terry, who swore they’d live forever. It was the perfect twosome—the folly and eternal optimism of youth paired with the reality of death. Most touching, at the end of the twofer, Springsteen enumerated the items he’d kept of Thiess’s, including his box of 45s, his books and an old guitar, before saying “the rest of you, I’ll carry right here,” he vowed, patting his hand over his heart. 

Springsteen’s Wall of Sound

Accompanied by 17 musicians, Springsteen is basically mayor of a small city on stage. As always, the production is minimal, but that’s in part because there’s no room on the stage for anything but the musicians and their instruments. When everyone is playing, such as on songs like “Wrecking Ball” or “Glory Days,” between the boldness of the horn section and the beauty of the backing vocalists and the craftmanship of the E Street Band, it felt like a wall of sound was crashing from the stage over the audience. It’s a powerful sound, unmatched by any other outfit on the road. It’s been 12 years since Jake Clemons joined the band, replacing his legendary uncle Clarence on saxophone. His dynamic with Springsteen is obviously different, but he’s grown into an endearing, excellent foil and the warmth between the two is palpable. On a side note, there are so many of them that after the main set, they gathered for bows, but instead of departing the stage and coming back for their encore, they all just returned to their stage spots because nobody has time for that many people to leave and come back again.

The Power of 'Ghosts'

Springsteen’s last album of original material, Letter to You , got lost in the pandemic and the band’s postponed tour that would have supported it, if not for the shutdown. It’s chockful of songs about facing your past and saluting those who have gone ahead, while finding ways to move forward through grief, fear and the grind of aging. “Ghosts,” an uplifting song about cherishing being alive while honoring those who are gone felt criminally neglected. It’s a potent rocker that Springsteen and his band brought home with a power (especially from the Mighty Max Weinberg on drums) and a grace in Phoenix that easily conjured up the spirits of not only Theiss, but Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici. 

Springsteen’s Falsetto

After a few wobbles on the opening two songs, Springsteen’s voice locked in and sounded strong and boisterous throughout the whole concert, but the first time he went into his falsetto on “Two Hearts,” the crowd went crazy. He used it sparingly, but every time he brought it out, including on “Spirit in the Night,” “Don’t Play That Song” and  “Mary’s Place,” the audience couldn’t get enough.

The Outro to “She’s the One”

Honestly, does Springsteen (or anyone) have a more joyous piece of music than the last 90 seconds or so of “She’s the One?” It soars on record, but live, it causes the roof to levitate. In Phoenix, Max Weinberg was pounding out the Bo Diddley beat, while Springsteen wailed on harmonica, and it just felt like a rocket ship catapulting into space. 

"Twist & Shout"

One of the things that Springsteen fans love is when he calls an audible– meaning he veers from the setlist and turns his back to the audience, confers with the band and adds something to the set the wasn’t originally slated to be played. The current tour, by design, hasn’t allowed for much spontaneity, so it was a particular delight when during the six-song encore, Springsteen made it seven songs. He grabbed a sign from an 18-year-old kid in the audience that read it was their first Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band show ever and would the band play “Twist & Shout?” (Next time, maybe they suggest a Springsteen song?) Springsteen grabbed the sign and held it up to his bandmates to make sure they knew what was coming next. The Isley Brothers’ classic is a song they’ve played for decades and they ripped into it with gusto and showed they really are at heart the world’s best bar band.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Announce 2023 North American Tour

By Andy Greene

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Bruce Springsteen has announced the dates for his long-awaited 2023 North American tour with the E Street Band. It kicks off on Feb. 1 in Tampa, Florida, and wraps up on April 14 in Newark, New Jersey. Ticket sales begin July 20.

Springsteen last played a concert with the E Street Band when their River tour wrapped up on Feb. 25, 2017, at Mt. Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. But they haven’t played in North America since September 2016, and their sole live performance of any sort in the past five years took place in 2020 when they did two songs on Saturday Night Live to promote Letter To You . This has been their longest period of time off from the road since Springsteen reunited with the band in 1999 following an 11-year hiatus where he toured both solo and with another backing group.

They were originally slated to hit the road in 2020 to support Letter To You , and dates were later penciled in for 2022, but the pandemic forced them to ultimately delay the tour until 2023. “I’m just aching to play,” Springsteen told SiriusXM’s E Street Radio earlier this year. “Not just play but to travel and see our fans in all those distant cities.”

In that same interview, he said the tour would be a mixture of classics and selections from his newer albums. “it will have a significant amount of some recent material, and then, of course, we’ll play a lot of the music that fans have become familiar with and love to hear,” he said. “It should be a balance… the show should feel contemporary, and it should also make you feel at home at the same time.”

That doesn’t mean he’ll attempt to play many songs from Western Stars . “I’d like to keep it a rock show,” he said. “Once you’re out in an arena or stadium, people have come to see a rock ‘n’ roll show… But you never know, something may squeak in there from that record. It’s not impossible. That one, I’m gonna have to wait and see.”

The tour heads to the U.K. and Europe for a run of stadium shows that run from April 28 through July 25. It then heads back to America for a late summer/early fall stadium run, though those dates have yet to be announced.

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February 1, 2023 – Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena February 3 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena February 5 – Orlando, FL @ Amway Center February 7 – Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock Live February 10 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center February 14 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center February 16 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center February 18 – Kansas City, MO @ T-Mobile Center February 21 – Tulsa, OK @ BOK Center February 25 – Portland, OR @ Moda Center February 27 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena March 2 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena March 5 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center March 7 – Milwaukee, WI @ Fiserv Forum March 9 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena March 12 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun March 14 – Albany, NY @ MVP Arena March 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center March 18 – State College, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center March 20 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden March 23 – Buffalo, NY @ KeyBank Center March 25 – Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum March 27 – Washington D.C. @ Capital One Arena March 29 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena April 1 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden April 3 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center April 5 – Cleveland, OH @ Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse April 7 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Arena April 9 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena April 11 – Belmont Park, NY @ UBS Arena April 14 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center

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Stomach ulcers: Bruce Springsteen has to cancel all concerts

U .S. rock star Bruce Springsteen (74) has had to cancel all of his remaining concerts for the current year for health reasons. The musician announced this, among other things, on his official Instagram profile. His total of 14 outstanding concerts in Canada and the United States of America have been postponed to next year and will all be made up in 2024. On the advice of his doctors, this was unavoidable as a precautionary measure. Springsteen is suffering from stomach ulcers, which he now has to have treated.

The exact dates for the make-up concerts would be announced in the coming week, but will all take place at the venues already scheduled, the release adds. "I thank all my friends and fans for their well wishes, encouragement and support," Springsteen said of the cancellations. He said he is already on the road to recovery and can't wait to see everyone again next year. Already at the beginning of September, Springsteen announced that he would not be able to perform his September dates due to the illness.

So far last concert took place at the beginning of September

The Oscar and umpteen-time Grammy winner is currently on an extensive tour together with his E Street Band. Springsteen made his last appearance to date on September 3 at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Until the end of July, Springsteen remained in Europe, playing in Munich, Hamburg and Vienna, among other cities.

Springsteen is regarded worldwide as one of the most successful rock musicians in history and has enjoyed legendary status for decades, especially in his native USA. To date, "The Boss" has released 21 studio albums and sold more than 70 million of his albums in the U.S. alone. His live performances are considered legendary among fans, also because they last much longer, up to four hours, compared to the vast majority of other musicians or bands in the rock business.

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Jason Kelce Was ‘Tearing Up’ Watching Taylor Swift Hand Out the ’22’ Hat at London ‘Eras Tour’

Jason Kelce had the time of his life at Taylor Swift ‘s Eras Tour in London — trust Us .

“It was insanely impressive. There’s something, like, obviously Taylor’s an amazing singer-songwriter but then to be able to go out there and be a performer at that level … Dude, if I did what she did for one song, I would have to change my clothes,” Jason, 36, teased during the Wednesday, June 26, episode of his and Travis Kelce ‘s “New Heights” podcast.

Jason and his wife, Kylie Kelce , were spotted at two of Swift’s three sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium, making their first appearance at the Friday, June 21, concert. The couple was spotted trading friendship bracelets with fans while standing in the VIP tent with celebrity guests Jonathan Van Ness , Nicola Coughlan , Salma Hayek and more. In footage shared via social media, the retired NFL player proudly showed off his beaded bracelets to Kylie, who laughed while displaying her own collection.

“It was an awesome experience, obviously the Swifties make it very memorable,” Jason continued. “Everyone’s so into it, they’re singing all the songs. There’s two concerts [I’ve seen] that have been like that — that one and the first time I saw Bruce Springsteen live. But it was equal kind of level of these insane fandoms that love these artists so much that they know all the songs.”

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One of Jason’s favorite moments was when Swift, 34, gives a lucky young fan her hat while singing “22” during the Red set. “Dude, I’ve never cried at a fucking concert and I was literally tearing up watching those little girls,” he told Travis, 34, on the podcast.

When Travis pointed out that Swift “makes every show unique” with her acoustic sets, Jason couldn’t agree more. “Right from the go, it’s banger after banger … but the acoustic set [is special],” Jason said. “It’s just her, a guitar and 90,000 people … then she’s blending from one song to another.”

For Friday’s concert, Swift performed a mashup of “Hits Different” and “Death by a Thousand Cuts” on guitar and combined “The Black Dog,” “Come Back … Be Here” and “Maroon” on piano.

“To be good in front of 90,000 people with just that, I think you have to be amazing,” Jason added.

The siblings recorded their podcast on Saturday, June 22, before returning to Wembley for another show. The Kelces watched from the VIP section with Tom Cruise , Ashton Kutcher , Mila Kunis and other A-listers. While Travis supported his pop star girlfriend once again on Sunday, June 23 — and shocked fans by making a surprise appearance on the stage during The Tortured Poets Department set — Jason and Kylie weren’t seen at night three.

Since Travis and Swift started dating last year, their relationship has launched the Kelce family’s fame to a new level and introduced a different group of fans to their dynamic. Travis dropped his first hint about Swift on “New Heights” in July 2023 — let Us remind you, he attempted to give Swift a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it at one of her Kansas City concerts — and Jason has since had fun stirring the pot and shouting out Swifites.

“The demographic of the show has shifted,” Jason teased at the 2024 Cannes Lions Festival on Thursday, June 20.

While Jason acknowledged that he and Travis would always stay “loyal” to their OG listeners, they both seemed happy with how the show has changed.

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“In some ways, you know, the show and everything that’s transpired over the past year has given reasons for girls to get involved in a sport where previously there wasn’t that much interest,” he explained. “All of a sudden, dads are hanging out with daughters. There’s worlds colliding, and our show gets to be another place where those worlds collide, which is awesome.”

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Travis has flown around the world throughout the NFL offseason to see Swift perform, but London marked Jason and Kylie’s first Eras Tour experience. Travis previously tried to convince his older brother to catch one of Swift’s concerts during a November 2023 episode of their podcast.

“The show was even more electric knowing that I had a little bit more to enjoy [it] for,” Travis said at the time after traveling to see The Eras Tour in Argentina. “Taylor absolutely ripped it. She killed it. It looked like she was having some fun up there.”

He told Jason, “We gotta get you to a concert. … I’m telling you, it’ll blow you away.”

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Forty years later, Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the U.S.A. is back on the charts

The Boss and the E Street Band are due at Citizens Bank Park in August.

Bruce Springsteen ’s Born in the U.S.A. turned 40 this month, and now the album that transformed him into a mega-star is back on the charts.

The Boss and the E Street Band have been touring in Europe this summer — except for a brief unplanned break from work due to vocal issues that caused them to postpone shows in France, Italy, and the Czech Republic.

Springsteen, who is in the Netherlands this week, will be back at South Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park on Aug. 21 and 23, to make up for shows that were rescheduled due to illness last summer . He has completed a full round of shows in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and also was inducted into the prestigious Ivors Academy in London by Paul McCartney in May.

That exposure has benefitted his album sales as Born in the U.S.A . has re-entered the UK album chart — coming in at Number 56 — for the first time in nearly a decade. It was last seen on that chart when it came in at Number 50 in 2015.

Born in the U.S.A . is the 22nd biggest selling album of all time, according to Wikipedia, with sales of 22.8 million copies, one spot behind Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction and one ahead of Abba’s Gold: Greatest Hits .

Sales of the album, which spawned seven hit singles and whose “Dancing In The Dark” and “No Surrender” are staples of Springsteen’s current live set, are also up in the U.S. The album re-entered the Billboard album chart at 197 this week.

Springsteen and the E Streeters wrap up their European tour at Wembley Stadium in London on July 27 and pick up again in Pittsburgh on Aug. 15 before heading to Philadelphia.

Willie Nelson to Sit Out Outlaw Music Festival Appearance in Virginia Beach

Photo Credit: Pamela Springsteen

Last week, Willie Nelson’s camp issued a statement informing fans and forthcoming Outlaw Music Festival attendees that the revered artist would take a break from his rigorous touring schedule at a doctor’s order after reportedly not feeling well enough to take the stage. As a follow-up to the initial pause in appearances, Nelson’s camp issued a note today, informing the public that he would not be in attendance at tonight’s concert, June 26, at Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater in Virginia Beach, Va. 

The latest statement shared on behalf of the 91-year-old country troubadour presented, “Willie Nelson will not be performing at tonight’s show in Virginia Beach. We expect Willie to return to the tour shortly.” As added information on this evening’s concert, which will go on without Nelson, the message continued, “Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Celisse, will perform as scheduled. In addition, Lukas Nelson and Family along with some special guests will play his own set which will include Willie’s classics and other songs.”

Today’s development follows Friday’s statement : “We regret to inform you that Willie Nelson is not feeling well and, per doctor’s orders, has been advised to rest for the next four days. He is expected to make a quick recovery and join the Outlaw Music Festival next week.” See the aforementioned statements below [via Nelson’s official Instagram]. 

For more information on the Outlaw Music Festival and Nelson, visit the artist’s official website .

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