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Excellent Dave Marsh review of Springsteen's The Rising.

 Fans commonly explain that The Rising's topic is not 9/11 but 9/12. But that's not really it, either. The 9/11 attacks and fragments of their aftermath provide Springsteen a setting but The Rising isn't trying to be Guernica or even Born in the U.S.A. The Rising's really returns Springsteen to one of his central preoccupations, the war about choosing life or death that rages in his everyman.

Indeed. One of Springsteen's best lines is "it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive," and the concerts are always about making the choice for life.

 Does Springsteen understand what it really means to encourage such people to "rise up"? It'll take an album good enough to follow in this one's footsteps to find out. Meantime, we are left, as always at the end of a gospel song, with some choices to make for ourselves.