"Bruce Springsteen offered much to take away from his keynote address at Austin's annual South by Southwest music festival. He advised young musicians to believe in their own greatness — and to admit it when they suck. Chronicling his own artistic development, he talked about how doo-wop taught him about sex, country music helped him understand despair and Woody Guthrie revealed the political roots of the fatalism he'd heard in Hank Williams — then he made the crowd feel Guthrie's complicated passion in their own throats by leading a singalong of "This Land Is Your Land."
Springsteen made corny jokes, played a little music on an acoustic guitar and showed remarkable humility, saying he thought of himself as "an average guy with a slightly above average gift." People were crying in their seats, and I'll bet every audience member walked away inking her own favorite moment into her memory."
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