[In The New York Times, John Rockwell praised the songs as] poetry that attains universality. ... You owe it to yourself to buy this record. ... `Born to Run' breathed with the same kind of discovery that made Elvis Presley's `Sun Sessions' and Bob Dylan's `Highway 61 Revisited' the two most important American rock albums before it. Robert Hilburn
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