Bruce is someone who gets a bad press, if Reagan had completely missed the point of one of your songs and used it in a campaign to be president it would be easy for you to get a bad press as well. When I meet someone else who really gets Bruce I love it, for a long time he was one of those artists that you didn’t mention on your top 5 list. But he’s more than the 80s cheese images of the Born in the USA album. He’s someone who sings with passion, someone who expresses important stuff about life and reality, and who sings like he means it. His songs tell stories, take you on journeys through dark nights and long car chases, and some of his songs do make you want to run around the room with glee, drive way too fast, grin with much joy and cry with the unbearable sadness of some of this life.
Thinking about it, I also love the way his songs sometimes express hope, hope that things might work out, hope that there might be something better up ahead on the road. I like that not everything has to be black all the time, and sometimes you do want to sing along with the fact that “it ain’t no sin to be glad that you’re alive”. There should be music for those times. When you want to sing about salvation through music, relationships and escaping the current grind of life. No surrender does just that, and speaks of the redemption found in music, as I’m a fan of the darker side of life I much prefer the sad acoustic version than the loud rock anthem. Mainly because it sounds like Mr Springsteen has been through more emotionally and is singing it one last time to scrape some hope together in this world. (or maybe that’s my bias and really songs just sound better played on an acoustic guitar.)
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EVERYTHING sounds better on an acoustic guitar. But I think you're right as to why - you can't hide behind an acoustic, so you can HEAR everything behind the song. That is why acoustic guitar music is best. Fact.
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