In a barn with his wife, an orchestra and a new set of cowboy-inflected songs, the Boss reflects magnetically on past demons and meditates on age
Even hardened Bruce Springsteen agnostics were converted after watching last year’s
Netflix documentary of his Springsteen on Broadway show – a straight-up account of an acoustic set of greatest hits. You really would have to be clinically soul-dead not to be blown away by the intensity of his performance and the monologues about his childhood and early career, scripted with the storytelling power of Raymond Carver stories.
Now comes a new documentary with more of the same – this time Springsteen performing in a barn on his ranch in New Jersey, playing his latest album Western Stars.