Before punk, I hated rock of the mid 70s so much that I was listening to country music, outlaws like Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, and older stuff like George Jones, Lefty Frizell and Hank Williams. Punk rescued rock from a fate worse than death, and made the music listenable again.
]]>What the heck does this mean? Springsteen’s first record came out in 1973 and was very, very different from the music he was making with Steel Mill in 1969/70.
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