Springsteen: "I Can Do Whatever I Want, Whenever I Want"...

USA Today Edna Gundersen June 7, 2006 at 06:05 PM

Explaining why he resurrected traditional folk tunes popularized by Pete Seeger,Bruce Springsteen cracks: "I'm an old guy. I can do whatever I want whenever I want, and I like doing it all."

The defiance that fueled 1975 breakthrough Born to Run also gave rise to We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, perhaps Springsteen's most surprising album yet. Few expected this plodding perfectionist, who labors over his handiwork for years in solitude, to serve up a ramshackle batch of covers recorded in three one-day sessions at a farmhouse with 13 players.

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