Prodigal Sons and Fathers in the Music of Springsteen

This week on The Rabbit Room I talked about Bruce Springsteen wrestling with his relationship with his father in his music, particularly his song “My Father’s House”

The thing Bruce couldn’t fix was the darkness of his childhood; the fatherly silence, the sudden rage, the alienation. We hear this irresolution in the ending of “My Father’s House,” where the the dark highway full of unatoned sins lies between the son and his father.

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