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‘Chapter and Verse,’ the audio companion to Bruce Springsteen’s extraordinary forthcoming autobiography, will be released Sept. 23 on Columbia Records. The career-spanning compilation will be released four days before Simon & Schuster publishes ‘Born to Run.’ Five of the album’s 18 tracks have not been previously released.

Springsteen selected the songs on ‘Chapter and Verse’ to reflect the themes and sections of ‘Born to Run.’ The compilation begins with two tracks from The Castiles, featuring a teenaged Springsteen on guitar and vocals, and ends with the title track from 2012’s ‘Wrecking Ball.’  The collected songs trace Springsteen’s musical history from its earliest days, telling a story that parallels the one in the book.

Recordings from Steel Mill and The Bruce Springsteen Band feature musicians who would go on to play in The E Street Band. Solo demos of “Henry Boy” and “Growin’ Up” were cut in 1972 shortly before Springsteen began recording his debut album, ‘Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.’

‘Chapter and Verse’ will be available as a single CD and double LP, as well as via digital download and streaming. The package will include lyrics and rare photos. ‘Chapter & Verse’ will be available for preorder on Friday, July 29.

View filmmaker Thom Zimny’s trailer for ‘Chapter and Verse’ here:  http://smarturl.it/ChapterVerseTrailer

‘Chapter and Verse’ song titles:

1. Baby I — The Castiles (recorded May 2, 1966, at Mr. Music, Bricktown, NJ; written by Bruce Springsteen and George Theiss; previously unreleased)
2. You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover — The Castiles (recorded Sept. 16, 1967, at The Left Foot, Freehold, NJ; written by Willie Dixon; previously unreleased)
3. He’s Guilty (The Judge Song) — Steel Mill (recorded Feb. 22, 1970, at Pacific Recording Studio, San Mateo, CA; previously unreleased)
4. Ballad of Jesse James — The Bruce Springsteen Band (recorded March 14, 1972, at Challenger Eastern Surfboards, Highland, NJ; previously unreleased)
5. Henry Boy (recorded June 1972, at Mediasound Studios, New York, NY; previously unreleased)
6. Growin’ Up (recorded May 3, 1972, at Columbia Records Recordings Studios, New York, NY; previously appeared on ‘Tracks’)
7. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (1973, ‘The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle’)
8. Born to Run (1975, ‘Born to Run’)
9. Badlands (1977, ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’)
10. The River (1980, ‘The River’)
11. My Father’s House (1982, ‘Nebraska’)
12. Born in the U.S.A. (1984, ‘Born in the U.S.A.’)
13. Brilliant Disguise (1987, ‘Tunnel of Love’)
14. Living Proof (1992, ‘Lucky Town’)
15. The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995, ‘The Ghost of Tom Joad’)
16. The Rising (2002, ‘The Rising’)
17. Long Time Comin’ (2005, ‘Devils & Dust’)
18. Wrecking Ball (2012, ‘Wrecking Ball’)

All songs written and performed by Bruce Springsteen except as noted.

Springsteen’s gripping 500-page autobiography, ‘Born to Run,’ will be released internationallySept. 27, published in hardcover, e-book, and audio editions by Simon & Schuster in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and India, as well as other publishers around the world. Springsteen has been privately writing the autobiography over the past seven years. He began work in 2009, after performing with the E Street Band at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. ‘Born To Run’ is available for pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/borntorunbook.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are currently on tour in Europe and will return to the U.S. for a string of dates beginning Aug. 23 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, and ending Sept. 14 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA.

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Personally I only need the first five tracks from this. I hope they'll make it available separately.

I also wonder why they're not bundling the CD with the book in a nice box with maybe some additional photos.

And why no DVD? With Thom Zimny involved (he did the trailer) it should be easy to create a video compilation with some (rare) stuff.

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desa33 posted:

I also wonder why they're not bundling the CD with the book in a nice box with maybe some additional photos.

 

Yep, that woulda made sense and preferable. But I guess then you're potentially not making as much money...

Cheers,

Hazy

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Hazydavo (dmnsg) posted:
desa33 posted:

I also wonder why they're not bundling the CD with the book in a nice box with maybe some additional photos.

 

Yep, that woulda made sense and preferable. But I guess then you're potentially not making as much money...

That is the point, not enough money. In the end that's what it all comes down to. Sometimes I wonder if Bruce isn't making enough money already.

 

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redbossfan posted:
Hazydavo (dmnsg) posted:
desa33 posted:

I also wonder why they're not bundling the CD with the book in a nice box with maybe some additional photos.

 

Yep, that woulda made sense and preferable. But I guess then you're potentially not making as much money...

That is the point, not enough money. In the end that's what it all comes down to. Sometimes I wonder if Bruce isn't making enough money already.

If he's still in it for the money at this point of his career I guess something went terribly wrong at JLM.

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I was thinking about this to myself and the various comments on this thread brought it up from my memory banks.  Now this is just speculation on my part. 

The layout of the songs other than the five unreleased tracks are following the course of the book which makes sense from a book release standpoint.  I'm sure a lot of casual and new fans will be purchasing this book and the album not just die hards like us.  

Bruce always remembers those who helped him along the way and has always been a generous man.  A while back Bruce gave Vini Lopez the use of all the Steel Mill songs.  So who knows perhaps Vini is getting a piece of this?

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essexboy posted:

Baby I sounds quite crisp and bright

To me it doesn't sound much better. To my knowledge there are only two copies still existing. One is still with Bruce and one was presented by Bruce to Billy Smith, the owner of the former R'n'R Museum in Asbury Park quite some years ago.

There is a scan of this one on my homepage.

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