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The Gaslight Anthem: Baby He Was Born To Run!!

Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, January 2010

Raised a few miles from Asbury Park and a few blocks from E Street, Brian Fallon is Springsteen's latest, feistiest and best-qualified heir apparent. In 2009, Fallon's band the Gaslight Anthem became a rumbustious, show-stealing international phenomenon, beloved even by The Boss himself. Not bad for a tattooed punk kid whose "mother fed me Born To Run with my Cheerios".

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