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Listen Up: Bruce Springsteen – "Jack Of All Trades"

I don't know if you guys have noticed, but our friends over at SPIN.com have been streaming one new track from Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball (out March 6) per day since Monday. If you already missed out on "Easy Money" and "Shackled And Down", well, I don't know what to tell you, brother... but don't despair, there's a pretty amazing song called "Jack Of All Trades" streaming now right here. Get on it while you can, Cinderella-- the next Wrecking Ball track will be taking its place tonight at midnight.

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First thoughts?

Um, it's amazing of course—feels like a downtrodden Nebraska or Devils & Dust folk tale on steroids. The electronic backdrop is an interesting sonic choice, while the waltzing pianos and bitter patriotism/optimism of the lyrics are pure Springsteen. "If I had me a gun, I'd find the bastards and shoot 'em on sight," he preaches earnestly, having made clear exactly who "em" is supposed to be, "I'm a jack of all trades... we'll be alright." At six minutes, it's a slow burning, funereal dirge of anthemic proportions that mines similar lyrical territory as first single "We Take Care Of Our Own"—it's refreshing to hear the toils of the working class invoked so elegantly by the one artist who's been singing for us longer than anyone.

What do you guys think of "Jack Of All Trades" and the other new Springsteen tracks? Hit up our comments section below with your first impressions.

Using Spotify? Listen to "We Take Care Of Our Own" by Bruce Springsteen right here.

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