An early Wild and Innocent outtake based on a still-standing bar bears the seeds of classic songs still to come.
Category: Roll of the Dice
Jon Landau logs a lone performer credit on this obscure hybrid outtake from the Darkness era.
This Nebraska-era demo uses cinematic vocabulary to devastating effect.
Bruce Springsteen’s most beautiful track ever is a cautionary tale about the destructive power of lies–both spoken and unspoken.
This quiet expression of grief was the last song written for The Rising and the most frequently misunderstood.
Whether in its original Southside Johnny incarnation or its more modern Tracks version, “Hearts of Stone” offers some of Bruce’s most brutally, emotionally honest songwriting.
At the height of the Bridgegate scandal, Bruce reprised his 80s-era team-up with Jimmy Fallon to throw some shade Governor Christie’s way.
This brief instrumental from Bruce’s Nebraska period never saw the light of day, but you can listen to it inside.
Nowhere in Bruce’s catalog is the importance of the right arrangement illustrated than in this deeply personal and vulnerable Human Touch track.
When nature calls, Bruce makes up a song.