Pete McMurray Show

🎸 Author Peter Ames Carlin takes us behind the scenes of Born to Run - the madness and the magic 🎷 From obsessive perfectionism to Clarence’s epic 18-hour sax solo session, plus the story behind the iconic album cover 🎤🔥

Episode Notes

Born to Run was released in 1975 
50 years later we're still playing it and talking about it.

There's a new book is entitled “Tonight in Jungleland: The making of Born to Run"
Author Peter Ames Carlin joined us  to talk:
-Would a 9 minute song like Jungleland make it today 
-How his OCD and perfectionism almost drove him crazy making B2R
-It took between 12 - 18 hours to nail down Clarence's Jungleland sax solo (we feel for the Big Man)
-"...beyond the palace hemi-powered drones ..." what the heck does that mean???
-How did they finally end up with (now iconic) B2R album cover
...and so much more ...