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Springsteen's 'Magic' rolls into Rose City Friday

12:23 PM PDT on Thursday, March 27, 2008

By DAVID KROUGH, kgw.com Staff

Rosalita in the Rose Garden? It’s a possibility Friday night as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band have been busting out a slew of gems from their 30+ year reign.

Guy Aceto, Backstreets

But I won’t jinx the setlist anymore. (The River, play The River!)

Just about everything has already been penned about music’s second Bob Dylan, our “very own American Jesus,” as Ezra Caraeff writes in the week’s Mercury cover story.

The “Magic” tour is the first stop for the Boss in P-town since 2004 and tickets as of Thursday afternoon were still available.

The album is a snap back to straight up, guitar and lyric driven glory that jumps out and pummels you. I first heard the first single “Radio Nowhere” while screaming across Oregon’s eastern desert, not even recognizing his voice at first, but mesmerized by the hammering guitars.

And even the academy noticed something rocking, as it nabbed three Grammys

The legendary marathon live shows have been selling out for most of the tour and even at 58 -- he’s still got the fury and emotion to pull it off, reviewers say.

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“Springsteen sang so vein-poppingly hard you feared he might explode onstage,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune said of the St. Paul show last week.

This event has general admission floor and reserved bowl seating, upper level ticket process started at $65.

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