The Glory Years

As to the stance that Phil Gammage takes on Cry of the City, other rockers have taken this tack, but it usually doesn’t sound that bad.  In Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days”, ballplayers and good lookers from schoolboy days are mentioned; in Phil Gammage’s “The Glory Years”, he is talking about happier times in an oil town that has gone bust.  (To be sure, Springsteen has talked about hard times in many of his other songs). 

(March 2015)