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Hungry Heart: Bruce Springsteen Expands "The River" In New Box Set

October 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Bruce - The Ties That BindBruce Springsteen is going down to The River on December 4 when Columbia Records releases The Ties That Bind: The River Collection.  This 4-CD/3-DVD or 4-CD/2-BD set promises a treasure trove of previously unreleased material across its 53 audio tracks plus four hours of never-before-seen video footage.

Springsteen's fifth album, The River was released on October 17, 1980.  The sprawling double album reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart and No. 2 in the U.K., and yielded the hit single "Hungry Heart" as well as other significant Springsteen compositions including the title track, "The Ties That Bind" and "Out in the Street."

The box set's four CDs include the original The River album and two discs of previously unreleased material.  The first, The Ties That Bind, is the 10-track album that Springsteen recorded in 1979 as a follow up to 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town but never released. "The songs lacked the kind of unity and conceptual intensity I liked my music to have. So we went back in the studio," he revealed in his lyrics book Songs.  This disc includes early versions of songs that eventually ended up in revised form on The River plus outtakes such as "Cindy" and a rockabilly version of "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)."

The fourth CD in the box set is The River: Outtakes, culling material from the 1979-1980 sessions that yielded the final album.  Eleven of its 22 tracks are previously unreleased, with the remainder previously issued on Tracks as well as various singles (including  the original single version of "Held Up Without a Gun") and compilations.   The press release promises that "for the most part [these] are completely unheard and unknown even to fans, who have long considered Springsteen's outtakes to be treasured secrets."

On the DVD/BD front, The Ties That Bind is a brand new 60-minute documentary produced and directed by longtime Springsteen collaborator Thom Zimny that features an intimate interview with Springsteen as he reflects on The River.  Zimny's film transitions between Springsteen telling the stories behind the music -- and offering solo acoustic guitar performances -- interspersed with period concert footage and rare photographs.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band: The River Tour, Tempe 1980 is featured on the final two DVDs (one BD).  This new film has been produced from footage professionally filmed in 1980 using four cameras and recorded in multitrack audio. It features 24 songs (with a running time of 2 hours, 40 minutes) from Springsteen's November 5, 1980 concert at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Also included is 20 minutes of footage from the late September, 1980 River Tour rehearsals held in Lititz, Pennsylvania, showing Springsteen and The E Street Band working through live arrangements of music from their upcoming release.

The Ties That Bind: The River Collection is housed in a 10" x 12" box with a hardcover 148-page coffee table book containing 200 studio and live photographs -- most of which have never been seen before -- plus reproductions of pages from Springsteen's notebooks, single covers, images and outtakes from the original album package, and memorabilia documenting the album.  Mikal Gilmore writes a new essay.

The Ties That Bind: The River Collection is due from Columbia Records on December 4 and can be pre-ordered at the links below!  (Note that Amazon U.K. links are currently placeholders.)

Bruce Springsteen, The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (Columbia 88875 16467-2, 2015)

4-CD/3-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
4-CD/2-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

CDs 1-2: The River (Columbia PC2 36854, 1980)

  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

CD 3: The Ties That Bind (single LP intended for release in 1979)

  1. The Ties That Bind
  2. Cindy
  3. Hungry Heart
  4. Stolen Car (Version 1)
  5. Be True
  6. The River
  7. You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
  8. The Price You Pay
  9. I Wanna Marry You
  10. Loose End

CD 4: Outtakes

  1. Meet Me In The City
  2. The Man Who Got Away
  3. Little White Lies
  4. The Time That Never Was
  5. Night Fire
  6. Whitetown
  7. Chain Lightning
  8. Party Lights
  9. Paradise By The C
  10. Stray Bullet
  11. Outside
  12. Roulette
  13. Restless Nights
  14. Where The Bands Are
  15. Dollhouse
  16. Living On The Edge Of The World
  17. Take 'Em As They Come
  18. Ricky Wants A Man Of Her Own
  19. I Wanna Be With You
  20. Mary Lou
  21. Held Up Without A Gun
  22. From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)

Track 12 from "One Step Up" single - Columbia 38-07726, 1987
Tracks 13-20 from Tracks - Columbia CXK 69475, 1998
Track 21 from "Hungry Heart" single - Columbia 11-11391, 1980
Track 22 from The Essential Bruce Springsteen - Columbia C2K 90773, 2003

3 DVDs/2 BDs

  1. The Ties That Bind documentary
  2. Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band: The River Tour - ASU Activity Center, Tempe, AZ - 11/5/1980

Concert - Part 1

  1. "Born to Run"
  2. "Prove It All Night"
  3. "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"
  4. "Jackson Cage"
  5. "Two Hearts"
  6. "The Promised Land"
  7. "Out in the Street"
  8. "The River"
  9. "Badlands"
  10. "Thunder Road"
  11. "No Money Down"
  12. "Cadillac Ranch"
  13. "Hungry Heart"
  14. "Fire"
  15. "Sherry Darling"
  16. "I Wanna Marry You"
  17. "Crush on You"
  18. "Ramrod"
  19. "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)"

Concert - Part 2

  1. "Drive All Night"
  2. "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"
  3. "I'm A Rocker"
  4. "Jungleland"
  5. "Detroit Medley"
  6. "Where The Bands Are (Credits)"

BONUS: The River Tour Rehearsals

  1. Ramrod
  2. Cadillac Ranch
  3. Fire
  4. Crush on You
  5. Sherry Darling

Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Joe says

    October 16, 2015 at 10:51 am

    This is my favorite Bruce album, everything (and it was a lot!) he recorded at this time is top notch. His outtakes would be Hall of Fame material for anyone else. But I am passing on this one. Here's why: Just last year I re-bought The River as part of the Volume 1 album collection. The original 1979 single album, though they may contain variations here and there of the songs we all know and love, only has the track "Cindy" as something I don't have. As far as the outtake disc, just the first 11 tracks are unreleased (and "Paradise by the C"'s live version is on Live 1975-85). And once I watch a concert video once, I rarely go back to it. If I had the funds, I would get it, but for 12 tracks that I don't have, I cannot justify it.

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  2. Victor Dang says

    October 16, 2015 at 11:00 am

    Damn. I was hoping The River album would be remixed (considering it was mixed on an early digital machine even though the multis were recorded on analogue tape).

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  3. Jim says

    October 16, 2015 at 1:09 pm

    Hoping I can just buy the unreleased stuff on iTunes, can't justify buying that many tracks over again!

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  4. SHaun says

    October 16, 2015 at 6:48 pm

    I'm sure the concert video will be cool (why does stuff like this sit in a vault for decades?), but I want to know if the same show will be released in an audio version, just like the Hammersmith Odeon 1975 show was.

    Since the Springsteen vault releases are now a thing, releasing that show may seem redundant after the recent 12/31/80 release, but I'd likely get it on CD. I'd get far more use out of than a DVD or Blu-Ray, as I'd think most people would.

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  5. Bill says

    October 18, 2015 at 8:18 am

    Sorry, but with the $130 price tag and it being largely comprised of content most fans already have, this looks like a real holiday cash grab. I welcome the archive trawl, but expected better.

    Reply

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