“Darlington County” by Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen sat on "Darlington County" for years before it turned up on Born in the U.S.A. in 1984. He wrote it during the Darkness on the Edge of Town sessions in 1978, and the album take was cut at the Power Station on May 13, 1982, early in the making of the record. It's a road-trip romp: the narrator and his buddy head for the South Carolina county hunting for jobs and chasing girls, telling them each of their fathers owns a World Trade Center tower.

Clarence Clemons plays sax and percussion, Roy Bittan piano and synthesizer, Danny Federici organ and glockenspiel, Little Steven acoustic guitar and mandolin, Garry Tallent bass and Max Weinberg drums, with four of them on group vocals. It stayed a live favorite through every leg of the Born in the U.S.A. Tour.

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