12 years ago today (10/3/06), The Hold Steady released their third and most acclaimed album Boys and Girls in America. The album officially affirmed The Hold Steady as equal parts hard-traveling bar band, sonically adventurous indie rockers, and master chroniclers of the lost and broken-hearted. Songs like “Chips Ahoy!” and “Stuck Between Stations” proved transcendent modern rock classics, fueled by epic hooks, massive choruses, E-Street Band piano and singer/guitarist Craig Finn’s utterly unique lyricism and intensely detailed songcraft. Watch The Hold Steady perform “Stuck Between Stations” off Boys and Girls live at Warsaw Brooklyn in 2006.
