{"id":9991,"date":"2019-05-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2020-12-11T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:48:00","slug":"roll-of-the-dice-a-night-with-the-jersey-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/roll-of-the-dice-a-night-with-the-jersey-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll of the Dice: A Night with the Jersey Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l6leNRGhOqA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure what to make of &#8220;A Night with the Jersey Devil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not convinced Bruce knows what to make of it either.<\/p>\n<p>A Night with the Jersey Devil&#8221; first appeared as a downloadable audio and streaming video on Bruce&#8217;s web site on Halloween night 2008. Released with no fanfare other than a handwritten note of introduction, it nevertheless had the distinction of serving as the lead single for Bruce&#8217;s as yet unannounced upcoming album, <em>Working on a Dream<\/em>. Or did it?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10063\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/roll-of-the-dice-a-night-with-the-jersey-devil\/anightwiththejerseydevil_note\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/anightwiththejerseydevil_note.gif?fit=440%2C385&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"440,385\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"anightwiththejerseydevil_note\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/anightwiththejerseydevil_note.gif?fit=440%2C385&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-10063 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/anightwiththejerseydevil_note-300x263.gif?resize=650%2C570\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"570\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the album was first announced, Bruce&#8217;s Halloween surprise was listed as a bonus track, similar to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/31\/roll-of-the-dice-the-wrestler\/\">The Wrestler<\/a>.&#8221; But by the time the album was released, &#8220;A Night with the Jersey Devil&#8221; was nowhere to be seen. Why did Bruce drop it? As far as I know, no one&#8217;s ever asked him, and he&#8217;s never commented.<\/p>\n<p>But when fans who ordered the deluxe edition of the album played the bonus DVD that came with it, they quickly discovered that the Thom Zimny-directed video for &#8220;A Night with the Jersey Devil&#8221; was included.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce apparently wasn&#8217;t satisfied with that limited exposure, though: in April 2009, he released the song as the B-side to the single for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/25\/roll-of-the-dice-what-love-can-do\/\">What Love Can Do<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s stop and tally: this song that Bruce couldn&#8217;t commit to releasing on an album nevertheless received an official release on Bruce&#8217;s web site, his Youtube channel, a DVD, and a single. That&#8217;s a lot of weight to put behind an outtake&#8211;which might make sense if it was a great song. But &#8220;A Night with the Jersey Devil&#8221; is a bit&#8230; odd.<\/p>\n<p>It starts out as a creepy retelling of a local myth, almost a Halloween version of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/16\/roll-of-the-dice-nebraska\/\">Nebraska.<\/a>&#8221; Midway through, we suspect something else is at play, and by the end, we realize that Bruce has pulled a fast one on us. &#8220;A Night with the Jersey Devil&#8221; is ultimately a good-natured prank&#8211;one stop short of a novelty song, and that&#8217;s probably what prompted its album revocation at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a listen and go inside the song, but let&#8217;s start with a quick history lesson. When I was a kid, I used to go canoeing with my friends in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. We all knew the story of the Jersey Devil, and the two-minute History Channel clip below sums it up pretty well.\u00a0 Give it a watch, and then we&#8217;ll move on.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/embed\/21150900\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;re versed in the history of the Jersey Devil, we can see that the first half of the song is a colorful but essentially traditional first-person retelling of the myth surrounding the thirteenth child of Mother Leeds. In fact, the video even starts with a brief textual recap, before a coyote&#8217;s howl heralds the emergence of an oddly dispassionate (for now) Bruce Springsteen from the murky depths.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce seems lost in thought (and a really poor lip-syncher) as he tells his tale:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Hear me now!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I was born 13th child, &#8216;neath the 13th moon<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Spit out hungry and born anew<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Daddy drag me to the river, tie me in rocks<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Throw me in where it&#8217;s deep and wide<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I go down, I don&#8217;t die<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hole in the river bottom, I crawl through<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Come back kill six brothers and sisters, kill Papa too<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sway down Mama, sway down low<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They gonna know me wherever I go<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Into my bed with her kerosene my mama creep<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Set my flesh to burning, whilst I sleep<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I burn, burn, burn, till my soul burn black<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Black rains fall, I come back, I come back<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Creepy, yes. But basically a first-person Jersey Devil origin story with a Muddy Waters blues riff and the bullet microphone that Bruce grew so fond of during the Devils &amp; Dust Tour (almost certainly a coincidence, but who knows).<\/p>\n<p>But then the song takes a sudden turn: Bruce&#8217;s voice is sinister now (and his lip-synching much better); his eyes lock onto ours as if he&#8217;s finally registered our presence. He&#8217;s done retelling history&#8211;now he&#8217;s making a promise directly to us:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Get down Mama, get down low<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They gonna know me wherever I go<br \/>\n16 witches cast 16 spells<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Make me guitar outta skin and human skull<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sing you a song like the wind in the sandy loam<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bring you baby out your happy home<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And this is where we realize that something strange has happened, because the myth of the Jersey Devil has just merged with the legend of Bruce Springsteen. They&#8217;re now one and the same. Fiendish demon or rock star&#8211;is there a difference? Perhaps not in the mind of the singer, he seems to be saying. At least not tonight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Ram&#8217;s head, forked tail, clove hoof, love&#8217;s my trail<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I sup on your body, sip on your blood like wine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Out world theirs, this world mine<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So kiss me baby till it hurts<\/em><br \/>\n<em>God lost in heaven, we lost on earth<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sway down Mama, sway down low<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They gonna know me wherever I go\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wherever I go, wherever I go<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And now comes the punchline: Bruce seamlessly segues into the first verse and chorus from Gene Vincent&#8217;s 1958 single, &#8220;Baby Blue,&#8221; a song with basically the same riff but lyrically the polar opposite of &#8220;A Night With the Jersey Devil.&#8221; (So much of the song is used, in fact, that Bruce credits Gene Vincent and Robert Jones as his co-songwriters.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d7bb2Fcq5hk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>This is where we realize that everything that came before is a would be Romeo&#8217;s inner monologue. &#8220;Baby Blue&#8221; reveals to us that the singer is a lovestruck musician who sees himself as a much more sinister ladies&#8217; man than anyone else does. Perhaps the title of the song should have given it away from the beginning&#8211;it&#8217;s just a typical night with a would-be Jersey Devil.<\/p>\n<p>And just in case we don&#8217;t get the joke, Bruce windmills on air guitar while his stick figure drawing of a devilish guitar player closes out the song.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty clever, all in all, but it&#8217;s hard to imagine an album that it would fit on&#8211;or a setlist, for that matter. On Halloween night 2012, Bruce opened his show in Rochester with his one and only performance to date of &#8220;A Night with the Jersey Devil.&#8221; Maybe it played better to those who were there, but watching it from a distance, it seems more a curiosity than anything else. (It would have been cool if he had played a full &#8220;Baby Blue,&#8221; though.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I-cRhE4diyk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>A Night With the Jersey Devil<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRecorded:<\/strong> 2007-2008<br \/>\n<strong>Released: <\/strong>Digital Download (2008), <em>What Love Can Do\u00a0<\/em> (b-side, 2009)<br \/>\n<strong>First performed:\u00a0<\/strong>October 31, 2012 (Rochester, NY)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:<\/strong> October 31, 2012 (Rochester, NY)<\/p>\n<p>Looking for your favorite Bruce song? Check our full index\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/roll-of-the-dice-album-by-album\/\">here<\/a>. New entries every week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A curiosity of a song with an unusual release history. &#8220;A Night with the Jersey Devil&#8221; is an exercise in clever misdirection, and a sly wink from 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