Posts Tagged ‘Born To Run’

JONATHAN RADO – ” Thunder Road ” Bruce Springsteen Born To Run Cover Album

Posted: April 16, 2017 in MUSIC
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I’m so excited to share the first taste of Jonathan Rado from the band Foxygen full album cover of Bruce Springsteen’s legendary 1975 LP Born to Run, Its the second release from the specialist Sounds Delicious .

It’s a sprawling, springy jam and we think Rado has nailed it. The song premiered earlier this week. Here is what Rado had to say about covering The Boss:

“I’m recording ‘Born to Run’ by the Boss, one of my favorite records of all time – also one of the highest grossing records of all time. I’ve always wondered though, what it would sound like if Bruce had recorded this deep into his ‘Nebraska’ home-recording phase. Like, what would it sound like if he made ‘Born to Run’ at home & played all the instruments? I’m gearing up to find out (on this week’s diners drive-ins and dives).”

This second release follows Yumi Zoumas widely praised cover album of UK Brit pop band Oasis “Whats The Story Morning Glory (which is officially sold out). The record received accolades from many bloggers and more. Here are a few of my favorite quotes about the album: (from critics and members!)

 

“This first Sounds Delicious release arrived today and has left me feeling humbled and amazed […] I just realized this made me a thousand times more excited about having backed this on Kickstarter in the first place, as I suspect there will be more nice surprises in store that hit me in ways I’d never expect.” .

It’s been such a thrill to see the records making their way into backers’ and members’ hands. Please continue to tag your pics #turntablekitchen and #soundsdelicious.

This release is exclusive to SOUNDS DELICIOUS and vinyl-only (although the record includes a digital download of the album) – so the only way to get a copy is by joining the club. If the Yumi Zouma (which sold out less than a week after we started shipping it) is any indication, this one will go fast.

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From Jonathan Rado’s full album cover of Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run.

Available exclusively from Turntable Kitchen’s Sounds Delicious vinyl subscription service: www.turntablekitchen.com/sounds-delicious/

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – ” Born To Run ” Audio Book

Posted: December 6, 2016 in THIS WEEKS ESSENTIAL PURCHASES
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Bruce Springsteen narrates the audiobook edition of his critically acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Born to Run available everywhere today. Hear an extended preview of Bruce reading Born to Run as he discusses losing Clarence and what he would miss about their relationship on brucespringsteen.net

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Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.
He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as “The Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized.
     Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll.
Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs (“Thunder Road,” “Badlands,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “The River,” “Born in the U.S.A,” “The Rising,” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – ” Chapter And Verse ” The Book

Posted: October 7, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“Writing about yourself is a funny business…But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I’ve tried to do this.” —Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run

In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began.

Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.

He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as “The Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized.

Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs (“Thunder Road,” “Badlands,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “The River,” “Born in the U.S.A.,” “The Rising,” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.

 

Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll.

Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs, Springsteen’s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – New Book ” Born To Run ” and New Album ” Chapter and Verse “

Posted: July 28, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“‘Chapter and Verse,’ the audio companion to Bruce Springsteen’s extraordinary forthcoming autobiography, will be released Sept. 23rd 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.

With 5 unreleased songs (including tracks by the Castiles and Steel Mill) as part of a compilation to accompany the autobiography… CD, LP and digital album out 23rd September, book out 27th September

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.

Bruce Springsteen’s gripping 500-page autobiography, ‘Born to Run,’ will be released internationally September 27th, 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 Announces Book Tour, Starting September 27 In New Jersey,

Bruce Springsteen, in support of his upcoming autobiography Born To Run, has announced that he will be doing some appearances in support of the book. The book tour will being September 27th in Freehold, NJ and run through October 10th ending in Cambridge, MA. All of these “events” will include a pre-signed book from Springsteen which is a nice touch. More details about specific event information will be made available soon according to Springsteen’s own website.

Springsteen Book Tour Dates
September 27 – Barnes & Noble – Freehold, NJ
September 28 – Barnes & Noble Union Square – New York, NY
September 29 – Free Library Of Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA
October 1 – Elliot Bay Book Company – Seattle, WA
October 3 – Barnes & Noble The Grove – Los Angeles, CA
October 4 – Powell’s City Of Books – Portland, OR
October 5 – City Arts & Lectures – San Francisco, CA
October 7 – The New Yorker Festival – New York, NY
October 10 – The Harvard Coop – Cambridge, MA

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and the E.STREET BAND – ” Thunder Road ” Performed Over 41 Years

Posted: March 3, 2016 in MUSIC
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There are fan videos, then there are super-fan videos. Springsteen aficionado Phil Whitehead has put together 41 years worth of The Boss performing “Thunder Road” and makes them into an epic supercut . In this video, I wanted to explore how a song like Thunder Road has changed, not only in the way Springsteen performs it, but also how its meaning evolves with an older person singing as Rolling Stone said or Thunder Road, “the lyrics hint at a perspective beyond his years.” I also wanted to look the evolution of live recordings, both professional and homemade.

The music-video-supercut of Bruce Springsteen singing “Thunder Road” between 1975-2016

“Springsteen refuses to be a mercenary curator of his past. He always continues to evolve as an artist, filling one spiral notebook after another with ideas.

This year marks 41 years of Bruce Springsteen singing “Thunder Road,” the opening track off his classic 1975 album Born to Run. To celebrate, one fan has compiled footage of him performing the track throughout the years in all different incarnations.

The five-and-a-half minute video opens with Springsteen’s harmonica intro from the Hammersmith Odeon in London and includes clips from performances from all across the world — from New York to Milan to Stockholm and more — mostly playing with the E Street Band but sometimes playing solo with guitar and even piano.

 

“Thunder Road” is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, and the opening track on his 1975 breakthrough album Born to Run. It is ranked as one of Springsteen’s greatest songs, and often appears on lists of the top rock songs of all time.

The lyrics to “Thunder Road” describe a young woman named Mary, her boyfriend, their hopeless lives and their “one last chance to make it real.” Thematically, it reads as a nostalgic companion piece to “Born to Run”.

Musically, the song opens with a quiet piano and harmonica introduction, meant, as Springsteen said years later in the Wings For Wheels documentary, as a welcoming to both the track and the album, a signifier that something was about to happen. Eschewing a traditional verse-and-chorus structure, the song’s arrangement gradually ramps up in instrumentation, tempo and intensity. The title phrase is not used until the middle section of the song, and then is not used again. Finally, after the closing line there is a saxophone-and-piano duet in the instrumental coda.

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In the song, Springsteen mentions Roy Orbison “singing for the lonely” on the radio. Orbison, one of whose best-known songs is “Only the Lonely,” was a huge influence on Springsteen.

The song’s title comes from the Robert Mitchum film Thunder Road. Springsteen declared that he was somehow inspired from the movie even if, as he says, “I never saw the movie, I only saw the poster in the lobby of the theater.”

“Thunder Road” is a classic rock staple, and has been covered by artists such as Melissa Etheridge, Cowboy Junkies, Badly Drawn Boy, brazilian singer Renato Russo, Mary Lou Lord, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy with Tortoise and Frank Turner. Adam Duritz of Counting Crows often sings large portions of the lyrics to “Thunder Road” in the middle of their song “Rain King.”

Badly Drawn Boy also ends his album Born in the UK with the line “if we still don’t have a plan, we’ll listen to ‘Thunder Road'”.

In the movie Explorers starring River Phoenix and Ethan Hawke, the name of the space vessel they create out of a Tilt-A-Whirl is “Thunder Road”. In the novel High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, the protagonist Rob Fleming ranks “Thunder Road” as one of his five best side one tracks.

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and the E.STREET BAND – ” Tower Theatre Philadelphia 1975 “

Posted: February 14, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Fresh mix from multi-track of New Year’s Eve show at Tower Theater
For Bruce Springsteen, 1975 was a year that changed everything, 12 months of milestones which included recording the majority of and releasing the seminal “Born to Run” to critical acclaim; his first true national and international tour in support of the album; and appearing simultaneously on the covers of the National magazines Time and Newsweek. 

The year and the Born to Run tour came to a close with a four-night stand on friendly turf at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, with the final show ringing in 1976. The band marked the occasion by wearing tuxedos, in response to which Bruce said, “If I’d known you guys would dress like this, I wouldn’t have come.” That memorable performance arrives today at live.brucespringsteen.net as the third archival release in Springsteen’s live Archive Series .

December 31, 1975 is newly mixed from 16-track master reels by Toby Scott and mastered by Adam Ayan at Bob Ludwig’s Gateway Mastering. It’s being released in standard and ultra-high-resolution 24-bit/192Khz digital files, as well as being available for CD pre-orders which will ship in another month, says Brad Serling, founder and CEO of Nugs.net which powers the Springsteen download store.

“In looking for the next release,” Serling tells Backstreets, “we wanted to go for the highest quality sources we could find. With Agora, we found the highest-quality two-track, but we didn’t want to go down that road with the next release. Toby was going through the list of what Sony had in their archive, and up came a complete set of multi-track reels from the last night of the Born to Run tour. So that was pretty compelling.”

Things moved impressively fast from there, as Scott got the tapes from Sony and shipped them to Sonicraft, which specializes in multi-track analog-to-digital transfers and just happens to be based in Bruce’s hometown of Freehold, NJ.

“It didn’t require the level of work of a Plangent transfer,” Serling explains. “The tapes just needed to be baked and sampled.” The 24/192 transfer made its way back to Thrill Hill, where Toby Scott began to mix “as purely as possible, with no gadgetry” through his SSL console. “He built the mix in a way he knew Bruce would like a live show to sound, particularly from that era,” Serling adds. Scott sent the results to Jon Landau and to Bruce for them to listen and approve, and then on to Gateway for mastering. The process wrapped up the first week in February.

The show was recorded by a young Jimmy Iovine in the Record Plant’s remote truck, one of a few select dates (including CW Post College on Long Island and Seneca College in Toronto) captured at the request of Mike Appel for a possible live album. Rough mixes of the show were made back in early 1976 for consideration, but the live album plan was scrapped.

Nine tracks from those ’76 mixes surfaced to collectors a few years ago, and a rough two-track board tape has been around for decades from the collection of the Philadelphia DJ Ed Sciaky. But this all-new Toby Scott mix marks the first time the complete performance has been heard, and the quality is undoubtedly unprecedented.

In terms of setlist, Philadelphia 12/31/75 varies materially from the other high-quality document we have of the Born to Run tour, Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75, recorded just six weeks earlier on November 18. The set includes the show jump-starter “Night,” “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?,” the stunning and short-lived slow piano arrangement of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-out,” plus extraordinary covers of The Animals’ “It’s My Life,” Manfred Mann’s “Pretty Flamingo” and Harold Dorman’s “Mountain of Love” (also made famous by Johnny Rivers) before closing out the night with “Twist and Shout.”

“It is amazing how young Bruce sounds,” notes Serling. “It’s the end of this monumental tour, at a pivotal point in his career, and it is thrilling to listen to.”  Thanks to Erik Flannagan

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and the E.St BAND – ” Hammersmith Odean November 18th 1975

Posted: November 18, 2014 in MUSIC
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Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75 is both a concert video and the fourth live album by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, released in 2006. It is a full-length recording of their performance on 18 November 1975 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, during their Born to Run tours. It was first released as a DVD on November 14, 2005 as part of the Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition package, and then several months later on February 28, 2006 released as an audio CD.
The concert was part of Columbia Records’ push to promote Springsteen in the UK and Europe following the success of the Born to Run album in the US. The large amount of publicity accompanying these appearances, especially the one in London, famously caused Springsteen to react badly and furiously run about pulling down promotional posters proclaiming “Finally London is ready for Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.”

This performance marked the European concert debut of Springsteen and the E Street Band, kicking off a four-date mini tour which also featured shows in Stockholm, Sweden and Amsterdam, Holland, as well as a second concert at the Hammersmith Odeon on November 24 that was added due to the huge ticket demand for the first London gig.
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In the liner notes, Springsteen himself writes that after the show had been recorded, “I’d paid no attention to it. I never looked at it … for 30 years.” After the Rising tour, he had an inkling to dig into film of the early part of his career, the vast majority of which remained “a blank spot,” with little or nothing ever released. He found the film and the 24-track audio recordings. The two-and-a-half-hour concert film was spliced together from 32 reels of silent 16-mm footage, digitally restored frame by frame in a painstaking process that took editor Thom Zimny a full year to complete. Bob Clearmountain, a veteran of several Springsteen projects, mixed the audio for the CD and film.Actor, writer and Monty Python member Michael Palin was in attendance and devoted an entire diary entry (Tuesday, November 18th, 1975) to the concert and his first impression of Springsteen and the band. He notes that the hype by CBS Records was met with a certain skepticism by the ticket-buying public. He notes that the concert did not start until 45 minutes after the scheduled start time, that the PA system made it difficult for him to make out the lyrics, but the band and The Boss “kept the evening alive — and he did three encores.”

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and the E.STREET BAND – ” Jungleland ” Live Uncasville 18th May 2014

Posted: November 17, 2014 in MUSIC
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“Jungleland” is an almost ten-minute long closing song on Bruce Springsteen‘s 1975 album Born to Run, and tells a tale of love amid a backdrop of gang violence. It contains one of E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons‘ most recognizable solos. It also features short-time E Streeter Suki Lahav, who performs the delicate 23-note violin introduction to the song, accompanied Roy Bittan on piano in the opening.The song in its lyrics mirrors the pattern of the entire Born to Run album, beginning with a sense of desperate hope that slides slowly into despair and defeat. The song opens with the “Rat” “driving his sleek machine/over the Jersey state line” and meeting up with the “Barefoot Girl,” with whom he “takes a stab at romance and disappears down Flamingo Lane.” The song then begins to portray some of the scenes of the city and gang life in which the “Rat” is involved, with occasional references to the gang’s conflict with the police. The last two stanzas, coming after Clemons’ extended solo, describe the final fall of the “Rat” and the death of both his dreams, which “gun him down” in the “tunnels uptown,” and the love between him and the “Barefoot Girl.” The song ends with a description of the apathy towards the semi-tragic fall of the “Rat” and the lack of impact his death had- “No one watches as the ambulance pulls away/Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light,” “Man the poets down here don’t write nothin’ at all/They just stand back and let it all be.”

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – ” Thunder Road ” Alternative version The Unreleased Bruce Springsteen

Posted: May 1, 2014 in MUSIC
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recorded for the Born to Run sessions possibly as a demo, this early version of the opening song is dark and moody Springsteen accompanies himself on acoustic guitar with a lot of echo on the vocal.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and the E.STREET BAND – ” Born To Run “

Posted: May 1, 2014 in MUSIC
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the 1975 Born to Run tour with the long energetic shows, A classic rock song about a young couple with dreams of a better place than new Jersey using their love to escape a town that can rip your bones from your back and tear you apart. The idea of the production was to obtain the Phil Spector wall od sound technique . Bruce has said that he wanted to make the greatest rock record I had ever heard he had enormous ambition for the song, i