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Today we salute 75-years-old Birthday Boy Stevie Van Zandt with a well-deserved hand, along with a special focus on his beloved @teachrockorg.bsky.social. Click below for details.
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From Stevie in '75 to Stevie AT 75... Happy Birthday to our beloved rock-and-soul Renaissance man!
November 22, 2025Happy 75th birthday to the E Street Band's true Renaissance man: singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist, arranger, bandleader/musical-director, activist, actor, director, writer/scre...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Okay, procrastinators, to quote Mr. @brucespringsteen.net himself, "You guys know what time of year it is?!" 😉 Click below for last-chance Frank Caruso "Spirit of '76" shirt Hanukkah/Christmas/Kwanzaa gift-giving deadlines, benefiting The Kristen Ann Carr Fund.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Even if you can't afford to bid for hanging this awesome @brucespringsteen.net / Caruso-signed print on your wall, you still can WEAR one of our exclusive shirts featuring the same super-cool artwork, benefiting The Kristen Ann Carr Fund. Click below for details.
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Bid on a Springsteen/Caruso-signed "Spirit of '76" print and lotsa other cool stuff in KACF auction
November 13, 2025The Kristen Ann Carr Fund (KACF)'s "A Night To Remember" 2025 will take place in New York City this coming Saturday night, and once again the charity event - co-sponsored by, among ot...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Today, on Veterans Day 2025, we're saluting Vietnam War vet, acclaimed author, fellow @brucespringsteen.net fan, and Letters To You contributor/friend Doug Bradley, whose great book THE TRACKS OF MY YEARS... dropped recently. Click below to read all about it.
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The "origin story" of Letters To You's beloved Veterans Day contributor, Doug Bradley
November 11, 2025Since Letters To You was launched back in 2023, each year we've featured a special Veterans Day contribution to the website from my friend Doug Bradley. Doug is a Vietnam veteran and ...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A @brucespringsteen.net show from almost twenty years ago that speaks strongly to the present, with music that tramples right over the false, dead-end dichotomy of "political" vs. "personal..."
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"It's about what's happening NOW!" - from Nugs/Live Archives, a past political show for our present
November 10, 2025A lot has changed - some forever, and not for better - in the nearly two decades since Bruce Springsteen's 2007 album Magic and the 2007-2008 tour that followed it. But in 2025, when ...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
@crolins.bsky.social & @shawnpoole.bsky.social took their time w/ a deep dive into @brucespringsteen.net's new NEBRASKA '82 box-set. Worth the wait; hope you'll agree. And be sure to check out the rare audio NOT on the box. Click below to read (and hear) it all.
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"Sit and listen to..." NEBRASKA '82: EXPANDED EDITION - the Letters To You review
November 9, 2025"...GHOSTLY VOICES..." - On "Nebraska Outtakes," "Electric Nebraska," and the enduring greatness of the original albumby Caroline MaddenAs any Bruce Springsteen diehard already knows, ...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Happy Halloween 2025 from Letters To You... and Happy BORN TO RUN (mini-)European Tour @50 (almost!) for @brucespringsteen.net & the E Street Band 🎃

[ artwork by @sawinchell.bsky.social ]

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Happy Halloween 2025 from Letters To You... and Happy BORN TO RUN (mini-)European Tour @50 (almost!)
October 31, 2025
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October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
@crolins.bsky.social and @shawnpoole.bsky.social dig deep in exploring the strengths - and, unfortunately, weaknesses - of the first-ever @brucespringsteen.net biopic, SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE. Click below for the full review.
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Be True - the Letters To You review of SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE
October 27, 2025"...you end up settling for la-la-la lights, camera, action...=Bruce Springsteen, "Be True"To start on a truly important and positive note, which of course we should do, some people wh...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Happy 76th Bday, "Funky!" (Click below for details.)
📸 by @jerseystylephoto.bsky.social for The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music - used w/ permission
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Happy Birthday, Garry Tallent, E Street's strong, silent, steady, and "Funky" "Foundation"
October 27, 2025Happy 76th Birthday, and best wishes for many more happy birthdays ahead, to the rock-steady Foundation of the E Street Nation, the E Street Band bassist who's now played more gigs bac...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Columbia Records promotion vet Paul Rappaport on how he went to bat for NEBRASKA w/ 1980s rock-radio. It's a much more nuanced - and accurate - portrayal of the @brucespringsteen.net NEBRASKA experience @ Columbia than the new film's. Click below to read it all.
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"...an offer they couldn't refuse" - How Paul Rappaport got '82 rock-radio to give NEBRASKA its due
October 24, 2025Editor's note: As promised, here's more great stuff from Columbia Records' former Senior Vice-President of Rock Promotion Paul "Rap" Rappaport, author of the excellent new book Gliders...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Long time comin', but now the NEBRASKA-focused biopic and box are here. Like us, y'all probably have been busy talkin' 'bout this weekend already, scrubbin' off the dirt, and digging into it all. So we'll go more in-depth a bit further down the road...
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Talkin' 'bout the weekend... NEBRASKA '82 box and SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE have arrived
October 24, 2025Well, they've certainly been a long time comin', but now they're here. Today, of course, marks the official release date for both the Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere film and the ...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Bravo, @brucespringsteen.net, award-winning storyteller who also is a TRUTH-teller, with another recent pro-democracy statement like that found on our charity-benefit t-shirt. Pre-order one (or more) for gifts & future “No Kings” events. Click below for details.
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Bravo, Bruce! And BTW, folks, you can buy our charity tee in seven different sizes, but... NO KINGS!
October 23, 2025Last Saturday night, after becoming the initial recipient of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures' Legacy Award, presented to him by Martin Scorsese for being "an artist whose body of work has inspired generations of storytellers and deeply influenced our culture," Bruce Springsteen performed solo-acoustic versions of three of his songs: "Streets of Philadelphia," "Atlantic City," and "Land of Hope and Dreams." As of yesterday, pro-shot videos of all three performances have now
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October 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Grab your tix TODAY: The @brucespringsteen.net Archives will premiere its filmed version of The American Music Honors 2025 this Nov. Click below for details, including the link to purchase tickets (which are only $20 each, plus fees,) beginning today at 1pm ET.
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Grab your tix TODAY: Springsteen Archives to screen its filmed version of American Music Honors 2025
October 21, 2025Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere ain't gonna be the only big Bruce-connected cinematic event on the big screen this fall...The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Musi...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
50 yrs ago today, those (in)famous TIME/NEWSWEEK cvrs hit newsstands. Columbia Records promo vet Paul Rappaport has a rarely-if ever-heard addition to the legend of how those dual @brucespringsteen.net cvrs came to be. Click below to read Rap's account, and more.
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Cover me... twice! Columbia promotion vet Paul Rappaport on the (in)famous TIME/NEWSWEEK covers @50
October 20, 2025EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: It was fifty years ago today that a different image of Bruce Springsteen, in the midst of his breakthrough Born to Run album and tour, appeared on each of the co...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We're saluting today's E Street Birthday Boy, Charlie Giordano, w/ extra messages of friendship & fandom from two of his most recent off-E-St. collaborators, Jon Loomis w/ Eric "Roscoe" Ambel @ Cowboy Technical Services Recording Rig. Click below to read it all.
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Happy Birthday, Charlie Giordano, still rockin' those keys for Springsteen... and many others, too!
October 13, 2025Happy 71st Birthday to E Street Band keyboardist Charlie Giordano. Coincidentally, if you flip those digits in "71" around to "17," you'll also get the number of years it's been since ...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
COLLECTOR'S ITEM ALERT... Our 1st-ever exclusive, limited-edtn., charity-benefiting t-shirt... courtesy of the great Frank Caruso, w/ all (100%) of profits going to one of @brucespringsteen.net's favorite orgs, The Kristen Ann Carr Fund. Click below to buy yours!
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Our exclusive charity-fundraiser shirt: Now you can feel the Spirit of '76... and WEAR it, too!
October 11, 2025Announcing Letters To You's first-ever exclusive, limited-edition, charity-fundraising t-shirt...CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER YOUR SHIRT(S) NOW!We are pleased and honored that artist Frank ...
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October 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"Sock it to me, baby!" - The @nugs.net / Live Archives' "First Friday" series has returned with quite a banger: @brucespringsteen.net & the E Street Band live in NJ on July 6th. Click below to read all about it AND hear a track from it:
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"Sock it to me, baby!" - Nugs/Live Archives' "First Friday" series returns with a great '81 show
October 4, 2025Yesterday, the Nugs/Live Archive "First Friday" series dropped its first release since last April. The series has returned with quite a banger, too: another great show from the Summer 1...
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October 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Ten years talkin' @brucespringsteen.net down the road... Quite an accomplishment indeed for creator/host @jessejacksondfw.bsky.social's SET LUSTING BRUCE: A BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN PODCAST. Click below for our full report/salute.
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Happy 10th Anniversary to Jesse Jackson's groundbreaking "Set Lusting Bruce" podcast!
September 29, 2025We at Letters To You would be remiss if we let September reach its end without recognizing yet another significant anniversary/"birthday" this month. Set Lusting Bruce: A Bruce Sprin...
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September 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Happy 76th Birthday to @brucespringsteen.net, our rockin' patriot! Check out our special salute and exclusive unveiling of 76-themed artwork by Frank Caruso, Bruce's collaborator on his quasi-children's book OUTLAW PETE. Click below to read and see it all.
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Can you feel the spirit... of bein' 76? Happy Birthday to Bruce Springsteen, our rockin' patriot!
September 23, 2025Well, it's now just past midnight in the ET (Eastern Time, or is that "E Street Time?") Zone. So Happy 76th Birthday, Mr. Bruce Springsteen!To get ready to celebrate this special day...
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September 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Author Anne Abel tells us how @brucespringsteen.net's music and performances helped her fight depression. Click below to read (and hear) more about Anne's moving, powerful, and inspiring book, HIGH HOPES: A MEMOIR.
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Author Anne Abel tells us how Bruce Springsteen's music and performances helped her fight depression
September 22, 2025Anne Abel truly felt that she was at the end of her rope. She was in her sixties, and had been struggling with depression since she was a teenager. In her adulthood, she had attempte...
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September 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Just a bit more re our 9/15 "ON NOT STANDING BACK AND LETTING IT ALL BE..." post, in regards to Jim Pavia's public LinkedIn statement posted yesterday [see attached images,] and also reported yesterday at WealthManagement.com ...
September 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
September 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
MUCH more soon re the Springsteen Archives (BSACAM)'s great celebration of @brucespringsteen.net's BORN TO RUN @ 50. For now, please enjoy this guitar flashed just like a switchblade. 😎 (Click below; 📸 by @jerseystylephoto.bsky.social for BSACAM - used w/ perm.)
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"Well, I got THE guitar..." - For BORN TO RUN @50, Bruce & all living BTR-era E Streeters, reunited!
September 8, 2025Okay, as you might have heard already, the hands-down (or is that hands raised by all those little pretties?) biggest highlight of The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American...
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September 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"No matter what one's feelings may be about the upcoming ' @brucespringsteen.net: Deliver Me From Nowhere ' biopic, today's biopic-related announcement is VERY good news indeed." Click below for all of the details (with lotsa interesting images, to boot.)
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Coming in Oct.: NEBRASKA '82: EXPANDED EDITION, w/ the long-sought "Electric NEBRASKA" trax & more!
September 4, 2025No matter what one's feelings may be about the upcoming Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere biopic, today's biopic-related announcement is very good news indeed. On Friday October 17...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM