Bruce Springsteen Finds A New Sound By Looking To the Past
"Hello Sunshine," the first single from Bruce Springsteen's upcoming album Western Stars, shares the same melancholy space as early '70s ballads by Jimmy Webb and Kris Kristofferson.
In the early 1970s, the singer-songwriter Danny O'Keefe had a "very mellow, beautiful friend," as he told magazine, who'd lived too hard and was paying the consequences. Heart attacks and pain pills burdened the guy's life, and O'Keefe, himself rolling into his thirties, identified. O'Keefe told his friend's story in the ballad "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" – and to .
