As the mid-point for Greetings From Asbury Park NJ, Lost In The Flood sits sonically with the rest of his debut outing, but along with Growin' Up, it shines a bright light in the direction he was heading. Full of small-town Americana imagery. Local heroes yearning for more, kids getting busted by the cops and of course, automobiles. As we learned from Bruce himself in his Born To Run autobiography, he couldn't even drive at the point he wrote Greetings, but you'd never know it. For as he always does, in Lost In The Flood, Bruce Springsteen extols his petrol fueled gospel with more life and authenticity than anyone could even come close to.