On E street - The Boss: Born to hitch

27 September 2016 - 09:30
By Dwight Garner

Long dark highways and thin white lines; fire roads and interstates; skeleton frames of burnt-out Chevrolets; barefoot girls sitting on the hoods of Dodges; pink Cadillacs; last-chance power drives; men who go out for a ride and never come back. Bruce Springsteen's lyrics have injected more drama and mystery into the myths of the US road than any figure since Jack Kerouac.

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