Released September 23, 2016 Length 1:17:51 Release date 23 September 2016 Label Columbia Records | Recorded 1966–2012 Artist Bruce Springsteen Producer Bruce Springsteen Genre Rock music | |
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Chapter and Verse
(2016) HSBC Arena, Buffalo, NY, 11/22/09
(2016) Similar Bruce Springsteen albums, Rock music albums | ||
Chapter and Verse is an album by Bruce Springsteen that was released on September 23, 2016. The album is a companion piece to Springsteen's 500 plus page autobiography, Born to Run, which was released four days later. The career-spanning album features eighteen songs handpicked by Springsteen, five of which have never been released. The album contains Springsteen's earliest recording from 1966 and late '60s/early '70s songs from his tenure in The Castiles, Steel Mill and The Bruce Springsteen Band along with his first 1972 demos for Columbia Records and songs from his studio albums from 1973 until 2012.
Contents
Bruce springsteen and the castiles baby i studio version
Commercial performance
Chapter and Verse debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with 29,000 units, including 27,000 traditional album sales.
Track listing
- "Baby I" — 1:55
- The Castiles (recorded May 2, 1966, at Mr. Music, Brick Township, New Jersey; written by Bruce Springsteen and George Theiss; previously unreleased)
- "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" — 2:54
- The Castiles (recorded September 16, 1967, at The Left Foot, Freehold, NJ; written by Willie Dixon; previously unreleased)
- "He’s Guilty (The Judge Song)" — 4:39
- Steel Mill (recorded February 22, 1970, at Pacific Recording Studio, San Mateo, CA; previously unreleased)
- "Ballad of Jesse James" — 5:30
- The Bruce Springsteen Band (recorded March 14, 1972, at Challenger Eastern Surfboards, Highland, NJ; previously unreleased)
- "Henry Boy" — 3:17
- (recorded June 1972, at Mediasound Studios, New York, NY; previously unreleased)
- "Growin' Up" — 2:42
- (recorded May 3, 1972, at Columbia Records Recordings Studios, New York, NY; previously appeared on Tracks)
- "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" — 5:34
- (1973, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle)
- "Born to Run" — 4:30
- (1975, Born to Run)
- "Badlands" — 4:01
- (1978, Darkness on the Edge of Town)
- "The River" — 4:59
- (1980, The River)
- "My Father's House" — 5:04
- (1982, Nebraska)
- "Born in the U.S.A." — 4:37
- (1984, Born in the U.S.A.)
- "Brilliant Disguise" — 4:14
- (1987, Tunnel of Love)
- "Living Proof" — 4:45
- (1992, Lucky Town)
- "The Ghost of Tom Joad" — 4:21
- (1995, The Ghost of Tom Joad)
- "The Rising" — 4:47
- (2002, The Rising)
- "Long Time Comin'" — 4:13
- (2005, Devils & Dust)
- "Wrecking Ball" — 5:49
- (2012, Wrecking Ball)
Songs
1Baby I1:57
2You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover2:58
3He’s Guilty (The Judge Song)4:42