1) The Ties That Bind
2) Sherry Darling
3) Jackson Cage
4) Two Hearts
5) Independence Day
6) Hungry Heart
7) Out in The Street
8) Crush On You
9) You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
10) I Wanna Marry You
11) The River

1) Point Blank
2) Cadillac Ranch
3) I'm A Rocker
4) Fade Away
5) Stolen Car
6) Ramrod
7) The Price You Pay
8) Drive All Night
9) Wreck On The Highway

Bruce: "The sound and song content of The River was both a reaction to and an extension of the ideas explored on Darkness on the Edge of Town. Darkness had been a modern, technically produced studio album, less eccentric sounding and more conventionally recorded than Born to Run. On The River I knew I wanted more of the roughness and spontaneity of our live show. I was concerned about moving too close to the sterility of '70s record production. Steve Van Zandt, my old friend and guitarist, had joined the production team, which included Jon Landau and Chuck Plotkin. As veterans of the local New Jersey Club scene, Steve and I enjoyed a strong, close relationship. Now together, we began to steer the recording of The River in a rawer direction.

The album closes with a title stolen from a Roy Acuff song. "Wreck on the Highway" is about confronting one's own death and stepping into the adult world where time is finite. On a rainy highway the character witnesses a fatal accident. He drives home, and lying awake that night next to his lover, he realizes that you have a limited number of opportunities to love someone, to do your work, to be part of something, to parent your children, to do something good."

Hungry Heart/Held Up Without A Gun

Hungry Heart/Wreck on the Highway

Fade Away/Be true

Fade Away/The Ties That Bind

Sherry Darling/Be true

Sherry Darling/Independence Day

Cadillac Ranch/Be True

Cadillac Ranch/Wreck on the Highway

Sherry Darling/Cadillac Ranch

I Wanna Marry You/Be True

The River/Independence Day

The River/Born to Run/Rosalita

The River/Ramrod

Point Blank/Ramrod

The River/I'm a Rocker

The Ties That Bind/I'm a Rocker

The River/Point Blank

Hungry Heart/The River

Sherry Darling/The River/The Ties That Bind/Hungry Heart

Lead Guitar, Harmonica

Organ