"Tracks" travels theroadnottaken in the Boss's dramatic 25 year trajectory from bar-band poet to 12-cylindered mega-stardom ... and then back to self-consciously quieter solo ruminations.
To see theroadnottaken, one need only think of that parallel fantasy masterpiece, written in exactly the same decades, and on a similar scale, by a similarly eccentric Englishman: T.
In retelling the story at his father's funeral, Al Gore used it not just as a reminder of a roadnottaken, but of the distance this branch of the Gore family had traveled in one generation to reach the heights of national power.