[2016-09-23] Bruce Springsteen "Chapter And Verse" compilation including 5 unreleased tracks (Columbia/Sony)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2016 1:55 pm

Description
Chapter and Verse is the audio companion to Bruce Springsteen's autobiography, Born to Run, arriving in bookstores September 27th, 2016. Five of the album's eighteen tracks are previously unreleased. 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, and is a must for any Bruce Springsteen fan.

Tracklist
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
7. 4th of July, Asbury Park
8. Born to Run
9. Badlands
10. The River
11. My Father's House
12. Born in the U.S.A.
13. Brilliant Disguise
14. Living Proof
15. The Ghost of Tom Joad
16. The Rising
17. Long Time Comin'
18. Wrecking Ball

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ISTDC9K/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2016 1:55 pm

And here is Springsteen's autobiography:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501141511/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2016 4:08 am

Bump: Added the pre-order details to the first post.

tideshea · **Joined:** 27 Mar 2014 **Posts:** 225

Awesome! This is unprecedented. First ever official release of anything Castilles, Steel Mill and Bruce Springsteen Band.

Mark Kravitz · 20 Nov 2006

The book...YES...the CD...Eh, undecided.

Gary Dunaier · 20 Jul 2006

Saw it at the Target at Sky View Center in Flushing on my way home from the Mets game (final score 17-0 - yes, the Mets won!)

$15.99, but if you buy this AND the book you get a $5.00 Target gift card.

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:44 pm

Amazon currently works out to $1.30 cheaper for both. (But you don't get to take a photo in the warehouse.)

Chapter And Verse (CD)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ISTDC9K/?tag=imwan-20

Born To Run (Book)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501141511/?tag=imwan-20

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

most really early springsteen isn't my cup of tea. i owned a boot back in the day that wasn't recorded badly, it's just that songs weren't that good.

but, the completist in me............................

JohnG · 03 Aug 2006

And completists need the audio CD too! Used to be called audiotape but now it is a CD! Bruce speaks.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1508224226/?tag=imwan-20

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

if you have everything bruce, and you feel you absolutely must get this for the 5 "new" songs, i suggest you listen first on spotify.........

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

JohnG wrote:

And completists need the audio CD too! Used to be called audiotape but now it is a CD! Bruce speaks.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1508224226/?tag=imwan-20

Yeah, that's what I am waiting for. I'll get the hardcover eventually but until then.....

By the way, just finished the audio book of Mike Love's "Good Vibrations". Excellent book!

Rick A.

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:32 pm

Quote:

Review: Bruce Springsteen's Revelatory 'Chapter and Verse' Book Soundtrack

Bruce Springsteen's passion for storytelling has taken countless forms over the years – he called his early songs "twisted autobiographies." Chapter and Verse is the companion album to his memoir Born to Run, following the tale from his garage-band youth to his current glory days, with five tunes he's never released before. For Chapter and Verse he's chosen a revelatory mix of classics and obscurities – he leans hard on the hard-luck tales in his songbook, as the Jersey romance of "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" gives way to the dashed dreams of "The River" or "Brilliant Disguise." You can hear how the scared kid who sings the Nebraska nightmare ballad "My Father's House" isn't so far from the hungry-hearted husband and dad of "Wrecking Ball" or the Nineties deep cut "Living Proof."

For the previously unheard gems, he reaches all the way back to 1966, to his teen garage band the Castiles, with the original "Baby I" and the Willie Dixon blues standard "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover." He goes back to his pre-E Street group Steel Mill, with the guitar-and-cowbell 1970 stomp "He's Guilty (Judge Song)," drenched in Danny Frederici's organ. The acoustic demo "Henry Boy" is a witty rough draft for "Rosalita," though it has its own story to tell: "They had the gall/To write your name up on the girls' room wall." But the prize is "Ballad of Jesse James," a March 1972 outlaw lament in the style of Van Morrison or the Band, with a dash of Gregg Allman in Springsteen's drawl. You can hear it in his voice already – he's a 22-year-old kid restless to wear a man's shoes, taking on the myths of the Old West when he's still stuck playing bars in Jersey. He's fired up about the territory he wants to explore. And over the course of Chapter and Verse, you can hear him get there.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/album ... lp-w441568

Gary Dunaier · 20 Jul 2006

Costco in Rego Park, Queens (NYC) had the vinyl format for $24.99 and the CD format for $10.99.

They also had the Born To Run hardcover for $17.99. Unfortunately, they did not have the audio book.

Momo · 22 Jun 2007

Gary Dunaier wrote:

Unfortunately, they did not have the audio book.

Looks like, according to Amazon, the audiobook comes out December 6.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1508224226/?tag=imwan-20

[2016-09-23] Bruce Springsteen "Chapter And Verse" compilation including 5 unreleased tracks (Columbia/Sony)

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