Two hours and 18 minutes passed in their Thursday night set at South By Southwest before Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band sang about the time the big man joined the band. The band—and the audience—went silent.

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High noon is an ungodly hour for the hipsters who crawl the late-night bars and honky-tonks of Austin, Texas, at the annual South By Southwest music conference. But that was wake-up time this morning if they wanted to catch an earful of the conference’s music keynote speaker, Bruce Springsteen.

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