Robbie Robertson recalls his hardscrabble youth on the new song “Dead End Kid,” featuring Irish singer Glen Hansard
“Dead End Kid” boasts a steady and heavy blues groove, over which Robertson scatters psych-tinged guitar licks and reminisces, in a sharp whisper, about growing up in Toronto and trying to prove wrong those who doubted his ambitions.
Hansard provides backing vocals on the track, and the pair combine for a particularly thrilling moment when Robertson rasps and Hansard wails the line, “Sleeping in the subways, hiding in the underground/My momma was looking for me, but I was nowhere to be found.”
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