Even before his first album was released, Bruce Springsteen was already hard at work on his second.<\/p>\n
Greetings From Asbury Park<\/em> made its under-the-radar debut on January 5, 1973. Over the following six weeks, Bruce recorded at least that many new songs–none of which would make his next album.<\/p>\n “Janey Needs a Shooter<\/a>” and “Song for Orphans<\/a>” would eventually see the light of day in the form of modern recordings almost a half-century later, but the rest are still locked away in Bruce’s vault (officially, anyway).<\/p>\n That’s too bad, because those early, pre-fame recordings are worthy of collection, and “Winter Song” is among the most impressive of the bunch.<\/p>\n