For Bruce Springsteen, Cleveland was a home away from home. With springsteen playing in Cleveland 36 times over his storied career, some of his fans have begun to dub the city “Asbury Park West.” “If you asked him in a quiet moment what cities meant the most to him during his career, Cleveland would be near the top of that list — if not at the top,” says Peter Chakerian, author of "Bruce Springsteen: Live In The Heartland." As label disputes and slow sales threatened to derail his career in the 1970s, Springsteen found a receptive audience in the economically struggling Rust Belt for his blue-collar anthems of political disillusion and hope. Springsteen parlayed a stage-stealing show opening for Wishbone Ash at the Allen Theatre in 1974 into a decade of sold-out headliner slots at local venues including the Agora Theater, a legendary show that would be released as a live album nearly 40 years later. “It was a perfect storm,” says Chakerian. “He was talking about things that people ...