Larry Campbell still remembers the voicemail he received early this spring, and from a familiar voice: “This is Bruce Springsteen . You know, I’m Patti Scialfa’s husband.”

Campbell knew Springsteen’s tongue was planted firmly in cheek. The veteran guitarist’s résumé includes a seven-year stint in Bob Dylan’s band starting in 1997 and studio sessions with Dylan, Paul Simon, Levon Helm, Rosanne Cash, and just about every American music legend of the last half-century. (He’s also toured and recorded with his wife, singer Teresa Williams.) His connections to the Springsteen-Scialfa home go back a ways, too. In the Eighties, Campbell met Scialfa when the two sang and played together in bands on the New York club scene, met Springsteen at a birthday party for E Street bassist Garry Tallent,

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