Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run (1975)

Tracklist

1. Thunder Road - 4:50

      Backing Vocals – Mike Appel, Steve Van Zandt

      Backing Vocals, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Glockenspiel – Roy Bittan

      Bass – Garry Tallent

      Drums – Max M. Weinberg

      Harmonica, Guitar, Vocals – Bruce Springsteen

      Saxophone – Clarence Clemons

2. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out: 3:11

      Baritone Saxophone – Dave Sanborn

      Bass – Garry Tallent

      Drums – Max M. Weinberg

      Guitar, Vocals – Bruce Springsteen

      Piano – Roy Bittan

      Tenor Saxophone – Clarence Clemons, Michael Brecker

      Trombone – Wayne Andre

      Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Randy Brecker

3. Night - 3:01

      Bass – Garry Tallent

      Drums – Max M. Weinberg

      Guitar, Vocals – Bruce Springsteen

      Harpsichord, Glockenspiel, Piano – Roy Bittan

      Saxophone – Clarence Clemons

4. Backstreets - 6:29

      Bass – Garry Tallent

      Drums – Max M. Weinberg

      Guitar, Vocals – Bruce Springsteen

      Piano, Organ – Roy Bittan

5. Born To Run - 4:30

      Bass – Garry Tallent

      Drums – Ernest "Boom" Carter

      Guitar, Vocals – Bruce Springsteen

      Keyboards – David Sancious

      Organ – Danny Federici

      Saxophone – Clarence Clemons

6. She's The One - 4:30

      Bass – Garry Tallent

      Drums – Max M. Weinberg

      Guitar, Vocals – Bruce Springsteen

      Harpsichord, Piano, Organ – Roy Bittan

      Saxophone – Clarence Clemons

7. Meeting Across The River - 3:16

      Double Bass – Richard Davis

      Piano – Roy Bittan

      Trumpet – Randy Brecker

      Vocals – Bruce Springsteen

8. Jungleland - 9:33

      Bass – Garry Tallent

      Drums – Max M. Weinberg

      Guitar, Vocals – Bruce Springsteen

      Piano, Organ – Roy Bittan

      Tenor Saxophone – Clarence Clemons

      Violin – Tzruya Lahav

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.
• Recorded At – 914 Sound Studios
• Mixed At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.
• Mastered At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.
• Lacquer Cut At – Master Cutting Room
• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute
• Manufactured By – Columbia Records
• Manufactured By – CBS Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Inc.
• Copyright © – CBS Inc.
• Copyright © – Laurel Canyon Music Ltd.
• Published By – Laurel Canyon Music Ltd.

Credits

• Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – Charlie Calello (tracks: B4)
• Design – Andy Engel, John Berg
• Engineer – Louis Lahav (tracks: B1)
• Engineer [Assistant], Mixed By [Assistant] – Andy Abrams (tracks: A1 to A4, B2 to B4), Angie Arcuri (tracks: A1 to A4, B2 to B4), Corky Stasiak (tracks: A1 to A4, B2 to B4), Dave Thoener, Mike Appel (tracks: A1 to A4, B2 to B4), Ricke Delena (tracks: A1 to A4, B2 to B4), Thom Panunzio (tracks: A1 to A4, B2 to B4)
• Engineer, Mixed By – Jimmy Iovine (tracks: A1 to A4, B2 to B4)
• Mastered By – Greg Calbi
• Other [Maintainance] – Paul Prestopino
• Photography By [Cover And Liner] – Eric Meola
• Producer – Jon Landau (tracks: A1 to A4, B2 to B4), Mike Appel
• Written-By, Arranged By, Producer – Bruce Springsteen

Notes

Released:  1975 

A1 to A4 & B2 to B4: Recorded, mixed and mastered at Record Plant Studio, New York, N.Y.

B1: Recorded at 914 Sound Studio, Blauvelt, N.Y.

Genre:  Rock 

Length:  39:33

Label - Columbia Records 

Bruce Springsteen - Springsteen On Broadway (2018)

Springsteen on Broadway is a soundtrack album by American rock singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen.
It features the complete audio of Springsteen's solo Broadway performance at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York, recorded live on July 17 and July 18, 2018, and filmed for Netflix.
The album was released on December 14, 2018, by Columbia Records.
After release, Springsteen on Broadway impacted the top 10 of record charts in more than 10 countries, including Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
In the United States, it reached number 11 on the Billboard 200.
A widespread critical success, the album was praised for examining Springsteen's recording persona and an autobiographical dimension recalling the musician's 2016 autobiography Born to Run.

Springsteen on Broadway was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 87, based on 15 reviews.
Reviewing for The Daily Telegraph in December 2018, Neil McCormick said "Springsteen on Broadway may not have the musical expanse of his work with the E Street Band, but it is still as powerful as any album he has ever made", especially applauding its autobiographical dimension, which he compared to Springsteen's 2016 autobiography Born to Run.
McCormick also highlighted Springsteen's humor and instincts as an onstage anecdotist. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian said listeners of the album will learn that Springsteen's recording persona is "as much a contrived character" as David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust character. Overall, he found that this "cocktail of homespun wisdom, frankness and blatant yarn-spinning is genuinely enthralling, a portrait of the rock star as a complex, conflicted 69-year-old man."
In hailing the performance as "a new type of rock show", Record Collector magazine's Jamie Atkins felt Springsteen is the only musician of his pedigree to have "the connection with their audience, the storytelling nous, the humour and pathos".
In Rolling Stone, Will Hermes described it as "by turns audiobook, podcast, and live album, and at its most potent when it becomes a hybrid of the three", while Kitty Empire regarded it as being "located somewhere between a TED talk, an episode of VH1's Storytellers and a confessional ... a hugely nourishing listen". Despite having never been "big on extended spoken-word material or solo-acoustic remakes of exalted songbooks", Robert Christgau said in his column for Vice that he was impressed by performance. In appraising the record as a whole, he said:

“

The Springsteen this most recalls isn't like any earlier album but the 2016 autobiography he called Born to Run for better reasons than you might imagine. Like that fast-reading 508-pager, its aim is to simultaneously depict and demythologize the Jersey shore and poke major holes in an authenticity it reconceives at a truer level of complexity

Disc one
1.  "Growin' Up (Introduction)" - 2:04
2.  "Growin' Up" - 11:59
3.  "My Hometown (Introduction Part 1)" - 3:44
4.  "My Hometown (Introduction Part 2)" - 3:36
5.  "My Hometown" - 3:59
6.  "My Father's House (Introduction)" - 4:28
7.  "My Father's House" - 6:22
8.  "The Wish (Introduction)" - 6:09
9.  "The Wish" - 4:24
10.  "Thunder Road (Introduction)" - 3:19
11.  "Thunder Road" - 5:28
12.  "The Promised Land (Introduction Part 1)" - 3:35
13.  "The Promised Land (Introduction Part 2)" - 3:34
14.  "The Promised Land (Introduction Part 3)" - 4:15
15.  "The Promised Land" - 3:59


Disc two
1.  "Born In the U.S.A. (Introduction Part 1)" - 4:16
2.  "Born In the U.S.A. (Introduction Part 2)" - 3:46
3.  "Born in the U.S.A." - 4:44
4.  "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (Introduction)" - 1:10
5.  "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" - 7:56
6.  "Tougher Than the Rest (Introduction)" - 1:25
7.  "Tougher Than the Rest" (w/ Patti Scialfa) - 4:29
8.  "Brilliant Disguise (Introduction)" - 1:43
9.  "Brilliant Disguise" (w/ Patti Scialfa) - 4:47
10.  "Long Time Comin' (Introduction)" - 3:08
11.  "Long Time Comin'" - 3:54
12.  "The Ghost of Tom Joad (Introduction)" - 3:27
13.  "The Ghost of Tom Joad" - 4:36
14.  "The Rising" - 4:33
15.  "Dancing In the Dark (Introduction)" - 2:47
16.  "Dancing In the Dark" - 4:10
17.  "Land of Hope and Dreams" - 3:57
18.  "Born to Run (Introduction Part 1)" - 3:54
19.  "Born to Run (Introduction Part 2)" - 3:41
20.  "Born to Run" - 5:08

All tracks are written by Bruce Springsteen.


Personnel

• Greg Allen – Engineer
• Kevin Buell – Guitar Technician
• Barbara Carr – Associate Producer
• Bob Clearmountain – Mixing
• Danny Clinch – Photography
• John Cooper – Engineer
• Rob Demartin – Photography
• Brandon Duncan – Assistant
• Michelle Holme – Art Direction, Design
• Alexander Hyde – Associate Producer
• Jon Landau – Producer
• Rob Lebret – Coordination
• Bob Ludwig – Mastering
• Mike Miccio – Piano Technician
• Mary O'Brien – Assistant
• Prez Powerz – Photography
• Brian Roman – Sound Design
• Sergio Ruelas Jr. – Music Editor
• Patti Scialfa – Guitar, Vocals
• Chris Sloan – Sound Production
• Bruce Springsteen – Composer, Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Primary Artist, Vocals
• George Travis – Producer
• Thom Zimny – Director, Producer

Notes

Released: December 14, 2018 

Recorded: July 17–18, 2018 

Genre: Rock 

Length: 145:43 

Label - Columbia Records

Bruce Springsteen - The Promise (2010)

“The Promise” is a compilation album by the American rock singer Bruce Springsteen, released November 16, 2010 on Columbia Records. It is a double CD compilation of previously unreleased songs drawing from the “Darkness on the Edge of Town sessions”. The album is also available as part of the box set “The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story”. It had been in production for many years and was originally scheduled to be released for the 30th anniversary in 2008.

Following “Born to Run”, Bruce Springsteen was proclaimed the savior of rock & roll classicism; it was hype that threatened to derail his career. In a bitter lawsuit with his former manager, he was locked out of a studio for two years but continued writing songs at fever pitch and rehearsing them on a farm in rural New Jersey. Some of these tunes composed during an economic recession reflect the tension between following one's dreams and her/his responsibilities. Still others reveal the deep influence of early rock & roll on Springsteen. When he was finally able to record, he cut enough material for four albums, and then pared it down to one. “Darkness on the Edge of Town” proved that Springsteen was no mere revivalist. The album was assembled from more sparsely produced, claustrophobic, and desperate "sound picture" songs, about lives broken by work, family and perceived societal obligations, and are haunted by questions of "what if?" They were a world away from the epic, busting-out-for-freedom maximalist tracks found on “Born to Run”.

“The Promise” collects 21 unreleased songs written (and mostly) recorded between 1976 and 1978. They offer an aural view as to what might have been had Springsteen been able to record immediately after Born to Run. While some lyric themes here reflect the brokenness and hard choices found on Darkness, others are substantially more triumphant in their worldview; and musically, all the songs here contain more substantially production. These selections also lack the knife-edge, searing, angry guitar that saturates Darkness. Included are his versions of singles farmed out to other artists  "Because the Night" (and while this version is terrific, it means something else in the end; Patti Smith's version remains definitive), the gritty, soulful "Fire," which eventually given to the Pointer Sisters who scored big with their classy version. The galloping "Gotta Get That Feeling" summons Jack Nietszche's production ears with its big mariachi brass. This tune and numerous others contain open homages to Phil Spector's "sha-na-na-na" choruses. Clarence Clemons' saxophone is much more prevalent on the songs of The Promise than it is on Darkness. His meat-and-potatoes tone adds heft and groove to these selctions. "Ain't Good Enough for You" is pure handclap, call-and-response, verse and chorus, approaching a doo wop celebration. The poignant love poetry in "The Brokenhearted" and "Spanish Eyes" could have been written by Doc Pomus, and reveals the influence of Jerry Leiber's "Spanish Harlem." "Candy's Boy" begins lyrically in the same place as "Candy's Room," but is a very different song melodically and thematically. "Racing in the Street" features different words; David Lindley's violin makes the track a bit less personal, more anthemic; it's absent the shadow of doubt that makes the Darkness version so devastating emotionally. "Come On (Let's Go Tonight)" is an early version of "Factory." "The Promise" is the only cut that might have added something to Darkness that isn't already there. Its sense of bewilderment, betrayal, uncertainty, and regret is total. That said, the addition of strings draws it outside Darkness' skeletal purview, underscoring the fact that Darkness is perfect as it is. The Promise stands on its own as a great Bruce Springsteen record; it feels finished, focused, and above all, offers definitive proof that Springsteen was even at that early date, one of the greatest rock and pop songwriters America had to offer.

The album features one of the last appearances of Clarence Clemons before his death in June 2011. Clemons is featured on the song "Save My Love", which was the only song on the album completely re-recorded by Springsteen and the E Street Band for the project.

Track listing

Disc 1
01. "Racing in the Street ('78)"  - 6:49
02. "Gotta Get That Feeling"  - 3:17
03. "Outside Looking In"  - 2:16
04. "Someday (We'll Be Together)"  - 5:35
05. "One Way Street"  - 4:19
06. "Because the Night"  - 3:25
07. "Wrong Side of the Street"  - 3:34
08. "The Brokenhearted"  - 5:19
09. "Rendezvous"  - 2:37
10. "Candy's Boy"  - 4:38

Disc 2
01. "Save My Love"  - 2:36
02. "Ain't Good Enough for You"  - 4:01
03. "Fire"  - 4:08
04. "Spanish Eyes"  - 3:50
05. "It's a Shame"  - 3:14
06. "Come On (Let's Go Tonight)"  - 2:18
07. "Talk to Me"  - 4:20
08. "The Little Things (My Baby Does)"  - 3:17
09. "Breakaway"  - 5:30
10. "The Promise"  - 5:52
11. "City of Night"  - 2:58
12. "The Way" (hidden track)  - 3:42

The E Street Band
Bruce Springsteen – lead vocals, lead guitar, harmonica
Roy Bittan – piano, vocals
Clarence Clemons – saxophone, vocals
Danny Federici – organ, glockenspiel
Patti Scialfa – backing vocals on "Someday (We'll Be Together)" and "Breakaway"
Garry Tallent – bass guitar
Steve Van Zandt – rhythm guitar, vocals
Max Weinberg – drums

Additional
Tiffany Andrews – backing vocals on "Someday (We'll Be Together)" and "Breakaway"
Corinda Crawford – backing vocals on "Someday (We'll Be Together)" and "Breakaway"
Barry Danielian - trumpet on "The Brokenhearted", "It's A Shame" and "Breakaway"
Rick Gazda - trumpet on "Talk To Me"
Stan Harrison - tenor saxophone on "The Brokenhearted", "It's A Shame", "Talk To Me" and "Breakaway"
Dan Levine - trombone on "The Brokenhearted", "It's A Shame" and "Breakaway"
David Lindley - fiddle on "Racing in the Street" ('78)
Ed Manion - baritone saxophone on "The Brokenhearted", "It's A Shame", "Talk To Me" and "Breakaway"
Michelle Moore – backing vocals on "Someday (We'll Be Together)" and "Breakaway"
Bob Muckin - trumpet on "Talk To Me"
Curt Ramm - trumpet on "The Brokenhearted", "It's A Shame" and "Breakaway"
Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg - trombone on "Talk To Me"
Antionette Savage – backing vocals on "Someday (We'll Be Together)" and "Breakaway"
Soozie Tyrell – backing vocals on "Someday (We'll Be Together)" and "Breakaway"

Notes
Producer:  Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Steven Van Zandt
Recorded:  1977–1978, 2010
Genre:  Rock, heartland rock
Length: 88:05
Label:  Columbia Records

© 2010

Bruce Sprinsteen & The E-Street Band - Live 1975-1985 (1986)

"Live 1975-1985" is a live album by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. It consists of 40 tracks recorded at various concerts between 1975 and 1985.

Long before he sold substantial numbers of records, Bruce Springsteen began to earn a reputation as the best live act in rock & roll. Fans had been clamoring for a live album for a long time, and with "Live 1975-1985" they got what they wanted, at least in terms of bulk. His concerts were marathons, and this box set, including 40 tracks and running over three and a half hours, was about the average length of a show. In his brief liner notes, Springsteen spoke of the emergence of the album's "story" as he reviewed live tapes, and that story seems nothing less than a history of his life, his concerns, and his career. The first cuts present the Springsteen of the early to mid-'70s; these performances, most of them drawn from a July 1978 show at the Roxy in Los Angeles, give us the romantic, hopeful, earnest Springsteen of "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" and "Thunder Road." The second section begins with his first Top Ten hit, "Hungry Heart"  this is the Springsteen of the late '70s and early '80s, an arena rock star with working-class concerns. After an acoustic mini-set given largely to material from Nebraska  songs of economic desperation and crime  comes a reshuffling of Born in the U.S.A., songs in which Springsteen and his characters start to fight back and rock out. Finally, he brings it all back home to New Jersey, starting with the unofficial state anthem, "Born to Run," and including "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" and "Jersey Girl." Fans could rejoice that it found room for seven previously unreleased songs, including "Because the Night," but it wasn't as funny, as moving, or as exhilarating as a Springsteen show could be. Maybe no single album, however long, could have been, but where Springsteen impressed in concert because he tried so hard, here he seemed to have tried a little too hard to make a live album carry the freight of everything he had to say.

Disc 1

01.  "Thunder Road"  - 5:46

02.  "Adam Raised a Cain"  - 5:26

03.  "Spirit in the Night" - 6:25

04.  "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"  - 6:34

05.  "Paradise by the "C""  - 3:54

06.  "Fire"  - 2:51

07.  "Growin' Up"  - 7:58

08.  "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City"  - 4:39

09.  "Backstreets"  - 7:35

10.  "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"  - 10:00

11.  "Raise Your Hand"  (Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Alvertis Isbell)  - 5:01

12.  "Hungry Heart"  - 4:30

13.  "Two Hearts"  - 3:06

Disc 2

01.  "Cadillac Ranch"  - 4:52

02.  "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)"  - 3:58

03.  "Independence Day"  - 5:08

04.  "Badlands"  - 5:17

05.  "Because the Night"  (Springsteen, Patti Smith)  - 5:19

06.  "Candy's Room"  - 3:19

07.  "Darkness on the Edge of Town"  - 4:19

08.  "Racing in the Street"  - 8:12

09.  "This Land Is Your Land" (Woody Guthrie)  - 4:21

10.  "Nebraska"  - 4:18

11.  "Johnny 99"  - 4:24

12.  "Reason to Believe"  - 5:19

13.  "Born in the U.S.A."  - 6:10

14.  "Seeds"  - 5:14

Disc 3

01.  "The River"  - 11:42

02.  "War"  (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield)  - 4:53

03.  "Darlington County"  - 5:12

04.  "Working on the Highway"  - 4:04

05.  "The Promised Land"  - 5:36

06.  "Cover Me"  - 6:57

07.  "I'm on Fire"  - 4:26

08.  "Bobby Jean"  - 4:30

09.  "My Hometown"  - 5:13

10.  "Born to Run"  - 5:03

11.  "No Surrender"  - 4:41

12.  "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"  - 4:21

13.  "Jersey Girl"  (Tom Waits)  - 6:30

Released:  November 10, 1986

Recorded:  October 18, 1975 – September 30, 1985

Genre:  Rock , Live

Length:  216:13

Label:  Columbia

Producer:  Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, Bruce Springsteen

Personnel

Bruce Springsteen - vocals, electric guitar, harmonica, acoustic guitar

Roy Bittan - piano, synthesizer, backing vocals

Clarence Clemons - saxophone, percussion, backing vocals

Danny Federici - organ, accordion, glockenspiel, piano, synthesizer, backing vocals

Nils Lofgren - electric and acoustic guitar, backing vocals

Patti Scialfa - backing vocals, synthesizer

Garry Tallent - bass guitar, backing vocals

Steve Van Zandt - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals

Max Weinberg - drums

Flo and Eddie (Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman) - backing vocals on "Hungry Heart"

The Miami Horns - horns on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"

Stan Harrison - tenor sax

Eddie Manion - baritone sax

Mark Pender - trumpet

Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg - trombone

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (1982)

"Nebraska" is the sixth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1982. Springsteen recorded demos for the album at his home with 4-track cassette recorder. The demos were sparse, using only acoustic guitar, electric guitar (on "Open All Night"), harmonica, mandolin, glockenspiel, tambourine, organ and Springsteen's voice.
The tracks on Nebraska were originally intended as demos of songs to be recorded with the E Street Band. However, Springsteen ultimately decided to release the demos themselves. "Nebraska" remains one of the most highly-regarded albums in his catalogue. The songs on "Nebraska" deal with ordinary, blue collar characters who face a challenge or a turning point in their lives. There is very little of the grace or salvation which can be seen in other albums. The album begins with "Badlands", a first-person narrative based on the true story of 19-year-old spree killer Charles Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, and ends with "Reason to Believe", a complex narrative that renders its title phrase into contemptuous sarcasm. The remaining songs are largely of the same bleak tone, including the dark "State Trooper," influenced by Suicide's "Frankie Teardrop". Criminal behavior continues as a theme in the song "Highway Patrolman": even though the protagonist works for the law, he lets his brother escape after he has shot someone (this became the basis for the Sean Penn-directed film The Indian Runner). "Open All Night", a Chuck Berry-style lone guitar rave-up, does manage a dose of defiant, humming-towards-the-gallows exuberance.
Springsteen stated that the stories in this album were partly inspired by historian Howard Zinn's book A People's History of the United States.
"Atlantic City" was released as a single in the UK, but not the U.S.

Track List:
01. Nebraska - 4:32
02. Atlantic City - 4:00
03. Mansion on the Hill - 4:08
04. Johnny 99 - 3:44
05. Highway Patrolman - 5:40
06. State Trooper - 3:17
07. Used Cars - 3:11
08. Open All Night - 2:58
09. My Father's House - 5:07
10. Reason to Believe - 4:11

Released: September 30, 1982
Recorded: Mostly January 3, 1982 at Springsteen's Colts Neck, New Jersey bedroom
Genre: Folk, Rock
Length: 40:50
Label: Columbia Records
Producer: Bruce Springsteen
All songs written by: Bruce Springsteen

Personnel:
Bruce Springsteen – vocals, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, glockenspiel, tambourine, organ