Bruce Springsteen was the voice of my teenage years. His music was the soundtrack for midnight rides on backroads with the windows down. Singing "no retreat, no surrender" at the top of our voices. "We learned more from a three minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school." That voice, raw and still undomesticated sings a different song now. Springsteen has released WE SHALL OVERCOME: The Seeger sessions. I will not pretend to have a vast knowledge of folk music or Pete Seeger's catalog. Others, more qualified, can address the resurgence of the folk movement and Springsteen's contribution. I speak from a purely emotional stand point. (The same way I review all music.) I love this album! I love the comfort of it. I am thrilled that Springsteen has followed me into adulthood with an album of stories and history. The ballads Jesse James and Mrs. McGrath bring you to a campfire as the gifted storyteller recounts the life of a famous outlaw and a wounded seaman. The Dixieland Jazz sound of Jacob's Ladder sends the Gospel tune into a new genre of undefined boozey, rowdy religion. My favorite track, O Mary Don't You Weep falls into that undefined category as well. Should you dance? Lift your arms in praise? Or raise your glass? All options are open to you. The rebellious spirit I fell in love with 20+ years ago is not absent. Pay Me My Money Down, Eyes On The Prize and the title track all speak to that spark that never really leaves us once ignited. Did Bruce follow me into adulthood or did I follow him? Did he push me? I can't say for sure. But either way we both seem to be shining in this new station of life. I think I'll go for a drive, roll down the window and sing out, "Froggy went a courtin', and he did ride, uh huh/Sword and pistol by his side, uh huh..."