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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – ” The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle ” Released 11th September 1973

Posted: September 11, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on September 11th, 1973, by Columbia Records. It was recorded by Springsteen with the E Street Band at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York. The album includes the song “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)“, the band’s most-used set-closing song for the first 10 years of its career.

As with Bruce Springsteen’s first album released earlier in the year, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle was well-received critically but had little commercial success at the time. However, once Springsteen achieved popularity with the album Born To Run , several songs from this album became popular FM radio airplay and concert favorites. On November 7th, 2009, Springsteen and the E Street Band played the album in its entirety for the first time ever in a concert at Madison Square Gardens and in Brisbane Australia,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHXMqqruWMQ

26th February 2014 Brisbane
THE E STREET SHUFFLE
4TH OF JULY, ASBURY PARK (SANDY )
KITTY’S BACK
WILD BILLY’S CIRCUS STORY
INCIDENT ON 57TH STREET
ROSALITA (COME OUT TONIGHT)
NEW YORK CITY SERENADE

The E Street Band is known to have taken its name from keyboard player David Sancious home in Belmar New Jersey. The back cover photo on the album has the six band members standing in a doorway. The picture was of an antique store on Sairs Ave in the West End section of Long Branch, New Jersey.

Springsteen had developed a renewed passion for full-band rock ‘n’ roll” when he began to record The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle in May 1973. The album departed from the folk influences of Springsteen’s 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and was instead characterized by “a grand fusion of nostalgic rock ‘n’ roll and soulful R&B”.

Springsteen recorded many songs for this album; at least eleven are known not to have made the final cut. Out of those eleven, “Zero and Blind Terry”, “Thundercrack”, “Seaside Bar Song” and “Santa Ana” were released on the Box set Tracks , whereas The Fever a song which had also been recorded by Southside Johnny,  was released on 18 Tracks.

songs from the album’s recording sessions remain officially unreleased:

  • “Evacuation of the West”. Recorded without Sancious and with no overdubs. It circulates in several bootlegs.
  • “Phantoms” (aka “Over the Hills of St George”). An early version of “Zero and Blind Terry”. It circulates in the bootleg Deep Down in the Vaults.
  • “Fire on the Wing”. Considered for inclusion in Tracks. The song remains uncirculated.
  • “New York Song”. An early version of “New York City Serenade”, which also included parts of an earlier song called “Vibes Man”. The song remains uncirculated.
  • “Secret to the Blues”. Reworking of a previous Springsteen song called “The Band’s Just Boppin’ the Blues”. The song remains uncirculated.
  • “Angel’s Blues” (aka “She So Fine” or “Ride On Sweet William”). Another uncirculated song.