Today’s roll of the dice: a tantalizing glimpse of a song still very much lost in the vault… if it ever got recorded at all.
Month: August 1980
An unfinished, unreleased demo that would resonate particularly well these days.
This lonely River-era acoustic outtake never made it past the home demo stage, but with Bruce’s warm melody and vocals it demonstrated a lot of promise.
“The Time in Between” never grew from its seed, but we can wonder what might have been.
No, not *that* “Protection” – this one is a light River-era outtake that likely influenced two later official releases.
One of the more curious of Bruce’s work-in-progress River-era home demos, “Stockton Girls” offers an inside look at a songwriter striving to bring a theme to life.
A precursor to “Working on the Highway,” Bruce’s lost-in-time “Stockton Boys” never made it past the home demo stage–but those demos escaped into the wild. Take a listen inside.
Cast off before he ever even finished it, “Love’s Gonna Be Tonight” is a Buddy Holly homage that might have been right at home on The River.
Here’s a look at an early home demo of a song that never made it to the studio. There aren’t any lyrics to speak of, but Bruce was pretty far along with the music.
This early River-era home demo was a dead end, but it’s melody pointed the way to an officially released Born in the U.S.A. outtake.