Eric Church, “Springsteen”

As an avid country music fan, I found it difficult to pick a song and roll with it, because there are so many I could choose from. I decided to just narrow it down to my all time favorites, one being, “Springsteen,” by Eric Church. It is very much like a lot of country songs are, all about summer, driving and reminiscing about good times passed. But this one is different than the rest, the sound is different and so is the feel. One of my friends put it best when she said, “It makes me nostalgic for a place I have never been, if that makes any sense.”

The song sort of takes you away to a place that feels welcome, but you can’t really pinpoint where it is. When I listen to it, I feel like I’m driving down an open road with just a few people that I love, being young and free, heading off into a bright future of promise. It’s odd for a song to illicit such a specific feeling, so I thought it was worth talking about.

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