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The Holy Trinity of Rick, Bob and Bruce: UPDATE!

In order to understand this post, you will need to read The Holy Trinity of Rick, Bob, and Bruce . Matchbox Twenty is "new" music to me, but many moons ago (like 13 years ago) I listened to a few of their songs, and LOVED them. The only problem was I didn't know who they were or what the songs were called, so I just forgot about them. Keep this detail in the back of your mind, and then think to what I wrote in The Holy Trinity . Keeping all that in mind, add this to the chain of events. Rob Thomas, lead singer of Matchbox Twenty, is a huge Springsteen fan, has asked him for career advice, and has used him for several of his Songs of the Day. Read this  article to see some more of what he has to say about The Boss. Now that you have all this information swimming around in your brain, let me make a list for you to refer to and see my point. 1. Thirteen years ago, my favorite song was "Unwell" by MB20, but it didn't know how to find it. 2. About ten years

The Holy Trinity of Rick, Bob, and Bruce

As I mentioned before, my favorite musicians are Rick Nelson, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen. In October, I even hinted at a neat little story behind the connection between the three. Flash back to the Summer of 2013! I had just ordered Cue the Rocky Music by Mike Kunda which quickly became, and still is, one of my all-time favorite books. He mention Bruce Springsteen quite a bit and even named the chapter about meeting/dating his wife "Drive All Night" after the Springsteen song of the same title. That is by far my favorite chapter in the book, so I decided to listen to the song - all 8 minutes and 33 seconds of it! - and I absolutely fell in love. I began listening to all the Springsteen music I could find and picked out some favorites including: "Born to Run,", "Thunder Road,", "Point Blank,", "Reason to Believe,", and "Badlands." I continued to listen to Bruce while expanding my musical horizons to Shinedown, Nickelback,