![]() ![]() ![]() And NYC Serenade is still one of my favorite songs by anyone ever. Bruce Springsteen: The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (DIREKT). Now 40 years on, Rosy still brings me a smile, it is so much about what it was like to be young-the freedom, the joy of inviting your love to come on out for an adventure, and the fact that mom and dad didn't matter, just being together did. At college, I met other like minded guys who could not get enough of this album and we bonded over it, I think fo my dead friend Kevin all the time when I play it. There was no real story, but the phrases were so cool (walk tall, or baby don't walk at all). The lyrics seemed to describe several different people and encounters. The piano intro was so unlike everything else that came before and that string arrangement came out fo nowhere. And those emotional ballads-the end of Spanish Johnny, the wonderful song to Sandy (he saying something about an aurora-how f'ing cool is this guy?), then Rosy and that impressionistic song about NYC. I loved the fast songs, such great stuff, R&B influenced but not derivative. Running Out Of Innocence (The Definitive Born To Run & The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle Outtakes). Then I bought it and was just blown away by 6 of the 7 songs. We danced to it, drank to it, smoked joints to it, and sang along with every word. Released on November 11, 1973, it clambered to 59 on the US album chart. Initially, it was all about one song: Rosalita. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle was recorded by Springsteen with the E Street Band at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York, where he's recorded his debut album. In a distant Philly suburb, we picked up on this early on. This album has a very special place in my heart. ![]()
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