Bruce Springsteen’s Christmas catalog is surprisingly modest: a handful of festive covers and original songs scattered across live albums, charity compilations, and streaming releases rather than a proper holiday album. For a rock legend who’s built a five-decade career on working-class storytelling and marathon concerts, The Boss has approached Christmas music the same way he approaches everything else, on his own terms, without the gloss or commercialism that usually comes with the territory.
These aren’t polished studio cash-grabs. Springsteen’s holiday recordings capture raw bar-band energy, from raucous…
