Springsteen's Protest Song Evokes Bob Dylan's Minnesota Beginning

To the ear of the Dresser, Bruce Springsteen’s “The Streets of Minneapolis” invokes Bob Dylan when he was a student in 1959-1960 at the University of Minnesota. This is when Robert Zimmerman became Bob Dylan. Yeah,  protest songs are what both of these singers do and have done over their careers.

 

 

What’s particularly impressive about Springsteen’s new song is that he wrote it the day Alex Pretti was killed and the next day at the Defend Minnesota Benefit Concert, Springsteen sung this song. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1645407389954731

Meanwhile, Bob Dylan at the age of 84 has extended his long-running Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour into 2026. From March through May, he will be playing venues across the Midwest, South and portions of the Southeast United States, including the Mayo Civic Center Arena in Rochester, Minnesota on March 24. This is the U.S. leg of the tour with additional dates that may be added for Europe.

 

 

Keep the music coming!

https://brucespringsteen.net/news/2026/streets-of-minneapolis-lyric-video/

 

Make Room for a Special Guest of Time

Title: Guest of Time

Author: Greg McBride

Publisher: Pond Road Press

 

Copyright: 2023

Number of Pages: 90

Blurbs by: Terence Winch, Jack Ridl, Alice Firman,  David Salner

Key Descriptors: childhood, youth, Vietnam, war, photography

First Sentence: The way the warm/rainwater beads/on the bent leaf…//something more/than this world knew/moments before.

Last Sentence: I had a son…//I one guest of time/this moment/my stars/night sky unbroken

Comment: There’s a largeness of spirit that Greg McBride brings to Guest of Time. It starts in his boyhood in the American West that evolves as he becomes a witness of the Vietnam war and his return to civilian/family life. This is a memoir of an American man with a few carefully chosen personal photographs.