{"id":1915,"date":"1980-07-09T11:00:31","date_gmt":"1980-07-09T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2026-09-20T13:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:59:26","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-night-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1980\/07\/09\/roll-of-the-dice-night-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the long-awaited anniversary box set for\u00a0The River<\/em> was announced, fans were excited to learn it would include a collection of unreleased outtakes. The prospect of complete, unreleased River-era Springsteen music unearthed and released from the vault certainly had me salivating.<\/p>\n

What we got, however, was not\u00a0quite<\/em>\u00a0what was advertised.<\/p>\n

There were some authentic vintage gems in the set, to be sure, but similar to\u00a0The Promise<\/em>, this latest set of “outtakes” included songs that had some work done on them. “Night Fire” is one of those.<\/p>\n

I was pretty excited to listen to this one–it had been floating around as a bootleg recording for quite some time, in what I assumed had been a rehearsal take, because the vocals were so muffled that it seemed like no one was even\u00a0trying<\/em> to capture them. I can’t even begin to guess how many times I listened to it with headphones on, trying to make out the lyrics to no avail. (See if you can–here’s the old unreleased 1979 outtake.)<\/p>\n