“Western Stars”

Bruce Springsteen can seemingly do it all. He managed to take a seemingly dull studio album and turn it into a much better listen when he plays the entire Western Stars album live in a barn with a full orchestra and small band. He wrote and directed this small film as a documentary telling the audience how he came to each song and introduces each one with some beautiful visual imagery of the western portion of the country. This isn’t a terrific movie, but it’s another time capsule of his career and for an album, which to me I considered an after thought plays pretty well in this movie and it’s something that you can have on in the background while doing other things. I enjoyed it.

Rating: (***)