What the Hell is a ‘Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out?’

Paul Combs
Rock n’ Heavy
Published in
3 min readAug 8, 2021

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Apparently even Springsteen doesn’t know

Scooter and the Big Man (Photo credit: Eric Meola)

Continuing our Month of Born to Run journey, today I want to look at the second track from the album, “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.” It’s not the best song on the record, obviously, probably ranking 5th behind “Born to Run,” “Thunder Road,” “Backstreets,” and “Jungleland.” Ironically, however, it has likely been heard by more people than any of…

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