This gorgeous Jackson Browne-ian work-in-progress ballad might have made for a gorgeous song had Bruce completed it.
Category: River
Many lost Springsteen gems have escaped from the studio over the years. A few never even made it inside one. Case in point: the song…
This melodic ancestor to “Jackson Cage” captures The Big Man standing just a bit too close to the mic.
Missing in action: this early lyrical forerunner to “Tougher Than the Rest” made it all the way to an E Street Band rehearsal but never to the studio.
Bruce seems to have spent a lot of time working on “Chevrolet Deluxe,” but in the end, he sold it for parts.
A riff in search of a song, both “Tonight” and “Break My Heart” point the way to an underappreciated Tracks outtake.
Listen in on an abandoned River-era demo that might have been an early ancestor of “Fade Away.”
“Baby Come Back” is another unfinished castaway from The River home demo sessions.
“From Small Things” got some cover love long before Bruce officially released it. Here’s one of the best. from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1990.
At 77 seconds, this furious 1980 B-side is Bruce’s shortest studio track on record.