If there’s a list of things to know about Lucy Dacus, high on the list is her admiration for Bruce Springsteen. And on Friday, she shared that she was able to introduce her dad, a major fan, to The Boss.
“I have fulfilled my purpose,” Dacus wrote on Instagram, including a photo of the trio backstage at Springsteen’s recent concert in Los Angeles. “Needed to let y’all know because I knooow at least thousands of you have personally met my dad at shows and have some idea of what this means to him, and me. I may have made you sing him happy birthday, or you’ve seen him come up on stage to play “Dancing in the Dark” on guitar, or wished him a Happy Father’s Day with me.
“I’m always trying to find ways to delight this little guy, but I’ll never do better than this,” Dacus added. “I’ll always respect him and be grateful he took the time to shake my dad’s hand.”
Dacus has been a lifelong Springsteen fan, first meeting the New Jersey icon in 2024. She shared that “his songs are as integral to me as the trees I grew up around” and that “I wouldn’t write music the same way without him, maybe wouldn’t write music at all.”
In September 2019, Dacus honored Springsteen and gave her dad a birthday gift in the form of a searing cover of the iconic “Dancing in the Dark.” That year, she declared to Rolling Stone that “Bruce’s birthday should be a national holiday” and “it definitely is in the Dacus household.”
Catching Springsteen during his “Land of Hope and Dreams Tour” was particularly moving, Dacus added in her Instagram post, as he addressed the current political and cultural climate of the United States.
“It felt really good to see him lead an arena of people in chanting ICE Out Now, and hear him talk about police brutality, labor issues, immigrant rights, class disparity, and the failings of our government, as he has been for decades, in the songs or otherwise,” she wrote. “He has been leading people out of bigotry his whole career.”
