Springsteen goes back to the tried and true, blue-collared American rock, and the result is ‘Magic’ indeed. The opening track, album single ‘Radio Nowhere,’ is classic Bruce, rock ‘n roll worthy of a stadium, which for the record the Boss can still bring to its feet as few can. It’s an album meant for drinking a mix of beer and nostalgia and trying to fight back the dying heat of youth and summer. Apologies for waxing cliché poetic, but it’s only appropriate when speaking of the man for whom poetic clichés are resurrected in songs about Rites of Passage and the times that can’t be recovered. His is the desperate voice of Middle America and its lost factories and jobs and ways of living.
