Original Article on Los Angeles Times

Austin, Texas -- Amid all the lyrics about desperation, frustration, falling in and out of love and heaven waiting down the tracks, three words during Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Bands set at the South by Southwest annual festival and convention captured what the singer-guitarist was getting at the whole night. We are alive! he bellowed during his song of the same name. If music is about celebrating the wonder of life, capturing its ups and downs, then on Thursday a wide-eyed and sometimes-winded Springsteen embodied that spirit. The 62-year-old did it through physical momentum, keen timing and a near-unparalleled talent for translating the human condition through music. And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark," he continued...(read more)