Chapter and Verse | ||||
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Released | September 23, 2016 | |||
Recorded | 1966–2012 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 1:17:51 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Bruce Springsteen | |||
Bruce Springsteen chronology | ||||
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band chronology | ||||
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Chapter and Verse is a compilation album by Bruce Springsteen that was released on September 23, 2016. The album is a companion piece to Springsteen's 500-plus-page autobiography, Born to Run , which was released four days later. The career-spanning album features eighteen songs handpicked by Springsteen, five of which were previously unreleased. The album contains Springsteen's earliest recording from 1966 and late '60s/early '70s songs from his tenure in the Castiles, Steel Mill, and the Bruce Springsteen Band, along with his first 1972 demos for Columbia Records and songs from his studio albums from 1973 until 2012. [1]
Chapter and Verse debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with 29,000 units, including 27,000 traditional album sales. [2]
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 78/100 [3] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
Cutting Edge | [5] |
Pitchfork | 7.5/10 [6] |
Tom Hull | B+ ( ) [7] |
All tracks are written by Bruce Springsteen, except where noted. [8]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original album | Length |
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1. | "Baby I" (The Castiles) | Springsteen, George Theiss | Recorded at Mr. Music (Bricktown, NJ), May 18, 1966; previously unreleased | 1:55 |
2. | "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (The Castiles) | Willie Dixon | Recorded at The Left Foot (Freehold, NJ), September 16, 1967; previously unreleased | 2:54 |
3. | "He's Guilty (The Judge Song)" (Steel Mill) | Recorded at Pacific Recording Studio (San Mateo, CA), February 22, 1970; previously unreleased | 4:38 | |
4. | "The Ballad of Jesse James" (The Bruce Springsteen Band) | Recorded at Challenger Eastern Surfboards (Highlands, NJ), March 14, 1972; previously unreleased | 5:30 | |
5. | "Henry Boy" | Recorded at Mediasound Studios (New York City), June 1972; previously unreleased | 3:17 | |
6. | "Growin' Up" | Recorded at Columbia Records Recording Studios (New York, NY), May 3, 1972; previously appeared on Tracks (1998) and 18 Tracks (1999) | 2:42 | |
7. | "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" | The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973) | 5:34 | |
8. | "Born to Run" | Born to Run (1975) | 4:30 | |
9. | "Badlands" | Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978) | 4:01 | |
10. | "The River" | The River (1980) | 4:59 | |
11. | "My Father's House" | Nebraska (1982) | 5:03 | |
12. | "Born in the U.S.A." | Born in the U.S.A. (1984) | 4:37 | |
13. | "Brilliant Disguise" | Tunnel of Love (1987) | 4:14 | |
14. | "Living Proof" | Lucky Town (1992) | 4:44 | |
15. | "The Ghost of Tom Joad" | The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995) | 4:21 | |
16. | "The Rising" | The Rising (2002) | 4:47 | |
17. | "Long Time Comin'" | Devils & Dust (2005) | 4:13 | |
18. | "Wrecking Ball" | Wrecking Ball (2012) | 5:49 | |
Total length: | 77:48 |
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