BruceSpringsteen.netThe BossBreak out the Sharpie and circle your calendars. The lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo Festival has just been announced, and suffice to say Woodstock and Lollapalooza have nothing on this. Just when you thought the four-day music and arts extravaganza, held on a farm in rural Tennessee, could get no bigger, the promoters snag Bruce Springsteen--fresh off his Super Bowl halftime performance--as their headliner, earning much more "cool points" than the Coachella Festival, wh
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