Thunder Road

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Written by: Bruce Springsteen
Produced by: Springsteen, Jon Landau, Mike Appel
Released: Aug. '75 on Columbia
Charts: Non-single

"We decided to make a guitar album, but then I wrote all the songs on piano," Springsteen said of his third album, Born to Run. "Thunder Road," its opening track, is a cinematic tale of redemption with a title borrowed from a 1958 hillbilly noir starring Robert Mitchum as a bootlegger with a car that can't be beat. These days, with Springsteen in his midfifties, he marvels that he wrote the line "You're scared, and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young any more" when he was all of twenty-four years old.

Appears on: Born to Run (Columbia)

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