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"During
the long intervals between my record releases, as I was spending more
and more tmie in the studio, when I met a fan on the street I was often
asked, "What are you guys doing
in there?" I regularly pondered that question myself
What we were
doing in there was making a lot of music, a lot more music than I could
use at any one time. As a result, my albums became a series of choices
- what to include, what to leave out? I based my decisions on my creative
point of view at the moment - the subject I was trying to focus on, something
musical or emotional I was trying to express. In certain instances, as
on Darkness on the Edge of Town, Nebraska, and The Ghost
of Tom Joad, these choices crystallized the album I was making. On
some of my other records the reasons I had for choosing one song over
another, in hindsight, feel a good deal less significant. One of the results
of working like this was that a lot of music, including some of my favorite
things, remain unreleased.
This collection
contains everything from the first notes I sang in a Columbia recording
studio, my early and later work with the E Street Band, through my music
in the '90s. It's the alternate route to some of the destinations I travelled
to on my records, an invitation into the studio on the many nights we
spent making music in search of the record we presented to you. I'm glad
to finally be able to share this music; here are some of the ones that
got away."
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von Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Plotkin, Jon Landau, Stevie Van Zandt, Roy
Bittan, Mike Appel, Jim Cretecos, John Hammond |