Last week, it was "A Night With The Jersey Devil," for Halloween. This week, it's "Working On A Dream," for Barack Obama. It's about time the guy who wrote "Working On the Highway" and "I'll Work For Your Love" has covered Elvis Presley's "Follow That Dream," Roy Orbison's "In Dreams," and Suicide's "Dream Baby Dream" while spending his career sweating it out on the streeets of a runaway American dream got around to that title, come to think of it. This one is a hopeful acoustic prayer of a song, performed with his wife Patti Scialfa at an Obama rally in Ohio.
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