Jack of All Trades

I think "Jack Of All Trades" is about where we are headed. Many people believe very hard times the-like-of-which haven't been seen for centuries are just around the corner and Bruce knows it. This song has a cadence that to me is soothing and may have been designed so as to help people as they come to realize what lies ahead, or sing to each other after events begin to unfurl.

Perhaps the finest song in Bruce Springsteen's vast collection. And I am proud to write this on the very day it was released.

One of the finest on the album i agree. I think the song is pretty obvious. It's a narrative from the point of view of a blue collar worker looking for odd jobs. Then Bruce switches and and talks generally about the hardships that (americans)people have gone through over the years (im guessing The recession, and hurricane katrina). Though sometimes it feels as though when he says jack of all trades he means, "i've been through worse i'll handle whatever you throw at me. The last part echos the twin towers, not sure if im right though.

As a loosely defined "concept album" proceeds from where the bankers - take care of their own and to get "easy money" from everyday people, blue collar people feel more shackled and drawn. Now that banking/ housing bubble has burst, blue collared people has to work all odds jobs to be jack of all trades but at the same time still hopeful about the new world and future.