“Tucson Train” by Bruce Springsteen

"Tucson Train" rolled out as a single from Western Stars in May 2019, the third track on the album, and it's rootsy Bruce Springsteen in widescreen, his guitar set against horns and strings. The story follows a construction worker who's left San Francisco for a fresh start in Arizona after a stormy romance in California, only for the two of them to miss each other once it fell apart. Now he's overjoyed that she's on her way to him on the Tucson train, and, as in so many Springsteen songs, the train carries the hope.

Springsteen produced it with Ron Aniello, who covers a startling amount of ground himself, from bass and drums to vibraphone and an organ solo, while Springsteen adds banjo, glockenspiel and mellotron to his guitars. Tom Elmhirst mixed it, and the black-and-white video shows him leading a large band.

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