“The four-piece horn section talks to the banjo, the guitars, the accordion, the standup bass, the pedal steel and a half-dozen vocalists…. [The music is] equal parts New Orleans jazz and back-porch Saturday night, with folk tunes, Irish airs, gospel and a double shot of rock `n’ roll weaving in and out. The anchor songs of these shows, including ‘John Henry,’ ‘Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep,’ ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ and ‘Pay Me My Money Down,’ come from different corners of America to address the fundamental matters Springsteen tackles in his own songs: work, virtue, adversity, faith, community, trouble, hope. More to the point, they have all the exuberance he brings to ‘Badlands’ or ‘Promised Land.’”—New York Daily News