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 released: Nov 11, 2003 Learn More about "The Essential Bruce Springsteen" Main "The Essential Bruce Springsteen" Page Purchase Now |
PRODUCERS: Bruce Springsteen Disc 1: Track 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Disc 2: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 14, 15 Disc 3: Track 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 Mike Appel Disc 1: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Roy Bittan Disc 2: Track 6, 7 Jimmy Cretecos Disc 1: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Jon Landau Disc 1: Track 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Disc 2: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Disc 3: Track 1, 5, 8, 9 Brendan O'Brien Disc 2: Track 11, 12, 13 Chuck Plotkin Disc 2: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 14, 15 Disc 3: Track 1, 5, 8, 9, 10 Steve Van Zandt Disc 1: Track 12, 13 Disc 2: Track 1, 2, 3 Disc 3: Track 1 MUSICIANS: Bruce Springsteen -- Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Harmonica, Bass, Background Vocals, Recorder, Mandolin, Handclaps All tracks, All Discs Mike Appel -- Background Vocals Disc 1: Track 6 Roy Bittan -- Fender Rhodes, Glockenspiel, Synthesizer, Keyboard, Piano, Mellotron, Kurzweil, Pump Organ, Korg M1, Crumar, Background Vocals Disc 1: Track 6, 8, 9, 11, 12. 13 Disc 2: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Disc 3: Track 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 Richard Blackwell -- Congas, Percussion Disc 1: Track 4, 5 Ernest "Boom" Carter -- Drums Disc 1: Track 7 Clarence Clemons -- Saxophone, Percussion, Background Vocals, Handclaps Disc 1: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 Disc 2: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13,14, 15 Disc 3: Track 3, 4, 5, 10 Danny Federici -- Accordion, Organ, Glockenspiel, Piano, Vox Continental, Farfisa, Background Vocals Disc 1: Track 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Disc 2:Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Disc 3: Track 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 Jere Flint -- Cello Disc 2: Track 13 Bob Glaub -- Bass Disc 3: Track 8 Jim Hanson -- Bass Disc 3: Track 11 Randy Jackson -- Bass Disc 2: Track 6 Suki Lahav -- Violin Disc 1: Track 8 Larry Lemaster -- Cello Disc 2: Track 13 Nils Lofgren -- Guitar, Dobro, Slide Guitar, Banjo, Background Vocals Disc 2: Track 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Disc 3: Track 4, 10 Vincent "Mad Dog" Lopez -- Drums, Background Vocals Disc 1: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Gary Mallabar -- Drums, Percussion Disc 2: Track 7, 8, 10 Disc 3: Track 11 Ian Mclagan -- Piano, Organ Disc 3: Track 8 Jeff Porcaro -- Drums, Percussion Disc 2: Track 6 Disc 3: Track 8 Marty Rifkin -- Pedal Steel Disc 2: Track 10 David Sancious -- Piano, Organ, electric Piano, Clavinet Disc 1: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 Jane Scarpantoni -- Cello Disc 2: Track 11, 12 Patti Scialfa -- Vocals, Guitar, Harmony Disc 2: Track 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Disc 3: Track 4, 10 Garry Tallent -- Bass, Tuba, Background Vocals Disc 1: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Disc 2: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Disc 3: Track 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 Soozie Tyrell -- Background vocals Disc 2: Track 11, 12, 13 Max Weinberg -- Drums, Background Vocals Disc 1: Track 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Disc 2: Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Disc 3: Track 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 Steve Van Zandt -- Guitar, Mandolin, Background Vocals Disc 1: Track 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Disc 2: Track 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Disc 3: Track 3, 5, 9, 10 Harold Wheeler -- Piano Disc 1: Track 1, 3 Alliance Singers: Corinda Carford (also contractor), Tiffeny Andrews, Michelle Moore (choir solo), Antionette Moore, Antonio Lawrence, Jesse Moorer -- Choir on Disc 2: Track 12 Horn Section on Disc 2: Track 12 : Mark Pender -- Trumpet; Mike Spengler -- Trumpet; Rich Rosenberg -- Trombone; Jerry Vivino -- Tenor sax; Ed Manion -- Baritone sax Original recordings engineered by: Nick Didia, Neil Dorfsman, Jimmy Iovine, Louis Lehav, Toby Scott Original recordings mixed by: Jack Ashkinazy, Bob Clearmountain, Jimmy Iovine, Brendan O'Brien, Chuck Plotkin, Toby Scott Remastered by Bob Ludwig Jon Landau Management: Jon Landau, Barbara Carr, Jan Stabile, Alison Oscar, Tammy McGurk, Sue Berger Project Coordinator: Alison Oscar Executive Producer: Jon Landau When the record company approached us and said they wanted us to be a part of their "Essential" series, that old saying came to mind. You know..."one man's coffee is another man's tea, one man's whiskey...". In any body of work there are obvious high points. The rest depends on who's doing the listening. Where you were, when it was, who you were with when a particular song or album cut the deepest. We saw a lot of new faces on our recent tour and we put this collection together with them in mind. We selected material from over the full span of our recorded work and had Bob Ludwig revise and improve the mastering. The idea was to present a little bit of what each album has to offer. The Rarities disc contains things recorded as far back as '79 for "The River," "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)" to "Code of Silence," a song I wrote with Joe Grushecky (of Iron City Houserockers fame), that we debuted on the '99 tour with the E Street Band. As for you guys who've been around for a while, I know-- "Growin' Up," "Racing In The Street," "Backstreets," "My City Of Ruins", one man's coffee-- Best, and see you up the road. From Small Things Cut at The Power Station in NY in '79. I busted out my Gretch "country gentleman" guitar and the band drove the hell out of it in a take or two. I played this song for Dave Edmunds backstage in London in '80 and he made a great record of it. None But The Brave Set in the bars and '70's circuit in Asbury Park. Cut at the Hit Factory, NYC for "Born In The USA." Held Up Without A Gun Alive and raucous in Uniondale, NY on New Year's Eve 1980. Go, Stevie, Go! Sing, Stevie, Sing! Trapped Written by Jimmy Cliff, one of the great masters of reggae and cut live on "The River" Born In The U.S.A. tour, 1984. The Big Payback A little mean rockabilly cut at home shortly after the "Nebraska" album. Missing I was experimenting with drum looping at my home studio and recorded this in California in the mid '90's. I played it for Sean Penn and he used it in his film "The Crossing Guard." Lift Me Up Director John Sayles called and said he was looking for a song to end his film "Limbo." The picture ends with a small plane approaching an island his main characters were stranded on. I tried to pick up the hum of the plane's engine and write something ethereal using the falsetto voice I'd developed in the '90's. County Fair Portrait of an end-of-summer fair on the outskirts of town. It's from a collection of acoustic songs I cut shortly after the "Nebraska" album in California in '83. Code Of Silence Written with Joe Grushecky in the winter of '97 and recorded live in NYC on the '99 2000 tour with the E Street Band. Dead Man Walking Written for the Tim Robbins film. I tuned the E string of my guitar down to a D and cut it in as low a key as possible to get as much deepness and darkness I could out of the music. Countin' On A Miracle I sat in the lounge of Southern Tracks Studio where we recorded "The Rising" and played this country blues version of "Countin' On A Miracle." Filmmaker/photographer Danny Clinch was there with his super 8 film camera and caught it on tape. We closed our shows on tour with his film. This is the audio portion. Viva Las Vegas Cut for the NME benefit record in support of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy with Jeff Porcaro on drums and Bob Ludwig on bass. Thanks: A special thank you to Chuck Plotkin who's labored in the shadows all these years but whose excellence as a record producer has been essential in helping me bring to you my best work. Charlie, thanks for all the nights of hard hard work, companionship and inspiration. Thanks to Bob Clearmountain whose great talent shaped so much of the finished sound of these records. Bob, thanks for showing me the direct route to my fan's hearts. Thanks to Bob Ludwig for all those trips to Maine and for raising mastering to a "fine art." Thanks to our friend Don Ienner and all the men and women, past and present, of Signatures Network, Fanfire and Columbia Records International for their unfailing support of my music. Thanks to John Ingrassia for his invaluable help in organizing and planning the release of Essentials. Thanks to Tom Donnaruma, Tracy Nurse, Rob Stringer, Franco Cabrini, Greg Linn, and many others for their input and support. And, thanks to Marilyn Laverty and Shorefire Media for helping to handle my relationship with the press for the last 25 years. They have done so with intelligence, sensitivity and patience. And as always thanks to Jon Landau, Barbara Carr and everyone at Jon Landau Management. Love and thanks to Patti, Evan, Jessica and Sam. Art Direction: Chris Austopchuk and Dave Bett Design: Fusako Chubachi Cover Photograph: Mary Alfieri Additional Photography: Eric Meola, Tim White, Neal Preston, Danny Clinch, Frank Stefanko, and Pellington/Krueger
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