Bruce Springsteen triumphs at emotional Atlanta tour opener

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Bruce Springsteen triumphs at emotional Atlanta tour opener

1:57 am March 19, 2012, by Melissa Ruggieri

.... It was the first of many “new” things on this 53-date outing. The second one came the instant the lights flooded the open-backed stage and, along with it, the jolting reality of what – rather, who – was missing.

Clarence Clemons. The Big Man. The imposing glue of the E Street Band.

It was a massive shadow that hung over the concert for two hours and 35 minutes – but one that was acknowledged frequently and gracefully, bittersweet sighs mixed with cheers in Clemons’ memory. Early in the show, Springsteen took “roll call” of the band, asking, finally, “Are we missing anybody?” an obvious nod to Clemons and organist Danny Federici, who died in 2008.

“The only thing I can guarantee,” Springsteen said, “is that if you’re here and we’re here…then they’re here.”
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Set list from March 18, 2012

•“We Take Care of Our Own”
•“Wrecking Ball”
•“Badlands”
•“Death to My Hometown”
•“My City of Ruins”
•“The E Street Shuffle”
•“Jack of All Trades”
•“Seeds”
•“Easy Money”
•“Waitin’ on a Sunny Day”
•“The Promised Land”
•“The Way You Do the Things You Do” (The Temptations)
•“634-5789” (Wilson Pickett)
•“Shackled and Drawn”
•“Lonesome Day”
•“The Rising”
•“We Are Alive”
•“Thunder Road”
•“Rocky Ground”
•“Land of Hope and Dreams”
•“Born to Run”
•“Dancing in the Dark”
•“American Land”
•“Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”

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