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troph

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  1. This guy has had tremendous staying power in my rotation. Everyone of these songs I can listen to several times a day and have for about 2+ years. Saw him in telluride last summer. Going to his concert this weekend in town. He’s fast moving up into all time fav status along with Guy Clark, Justin Townes Earle, and some others.
  2. For me it’s the witness he gives in his lyrics and in his raspy soulful voice to intense pain and despair. I might not always like every song, but when I find his witness to my pain that I can’t describe through the stories he tells in his music, I stop and listen. In some cases I not only listen, but I also respond at a visceral level. To that point, The Ghost of Tom Joad is probably a top 3 album of all time. Just fantastic story telling on that album. Straight time is so fucking good. Galveston bay, across the border, Sinaloa cowboys (holy shit what a story), Youngstown, ghost of Tom joad, highway 29, dry lightening. I mean all of those for me are absolutely fantastic songs. Hence top 3 all time album in my view. If I should fall behind might be the greatest love song ever written. even routine albums like Devils and Dust have songs with lyrics that blow my mind. Working on a dream, city of ruins, nothing man, streets of Philadelphia, my hometown, secret garden (I have this on my current play list), stolen car (patty does it better I’ll be honest), and I could go on and on. Those are the ones that immediately come to mind. his Seeger sessions tour was a bomb in the US but was wildly popular in Europe and the jam sessions on that tour were like nothing else, just spectacular. And not traditional E street music. and so his most popular rock songs are not typically what I gravitate to when I need a Springsteen fix. Frankly the sadder and more melancholic or the intense optimistic songs from a place of destruction are the ones that speak to me. And songs like that - the stories that evoke pain and heartache and possibly optimism in those places, there are very few musicians as good as Bruce.
  3. Nice jump…. Gonna bail early so I don’t get the “you’re watching another baseball game?”
  4. Only if the discussion is compressed.
  5. wait SEC is aggy, aggy is SEC?
  6. Came here to say lunges, squats and core exercises can fuck off. 10 weeks back at it with weights and resistance training, weight room and HIIT with a trainer 2x a week to go with tennis 2x a week. yesterday was the first work out where I felt like crap the whole time, no endorphins, honeymoon phase over. fuck lunges, squats and core exercises. Hate with the heat of a thousand suns.
  7. I am too. I was actually bracing for 1-2. Pitching was straight up championship winning caliber this weekend. We get AR and max back and pitching keeps dialing it in and we are a nasty nasty team even by Texas standards. Straight up ready to fuck everyone’s shit up.
  8. We got a cupcake schedule, didn’t you know that?
  9. It’s the common refrain from the mouth breather crowd when Texas does well. I’ve seen it many times about this years baseball team already.
  10. We gud. Thank baby Jesus.
  11. Yeah had one growing up.
  12. Unbelievable, so awesome!
  13. Sorry for some reason I read your post who is the color guy, yeah dunno this guy.
  14. Pitching went next level this series so far including getting the db ground ball
  15. Gotta go to the pen…
  16. Ty Harrington former Texas player and Texas State coach
  17. Humendous difference Does number 11 always show his smooth chest like that? wtf?
  18. I had a scotch and a fire watching Houston make dookies cry last night it was phenom.
  19. Guilt free Sunday funday ! Best day brewing NA is the bomb dot com.
  20. “But but but they got the easy schedule…” “I thought every weekend was a meat grinder in da SEC SEC SEC…?”
  21. Great movie
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