In June 2026, the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music opened its doors in Long Branch, NJ and became a must-visit for any fan.
Hundreds of fascinating artifacts (e.g., the radically different alternate cover mock-up for Nebraska) and curated displays tracing the roots of American music up through the present day appear, and in the James F. Allen In Concert Gallery, you can watch videos of live performances. One particularly striking clip captures Springsteen at Max’s Kansas City in 1972 performing “Lost in the Flood” on piano.
Springsteen graced small stages in New York City and elsewhere as a solo performer between his formative years in bands like The Castiles and Steel Mill and the start of touring with…

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