Bruce Springsteen
The Promise

The Promise consists of material Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded in 1977 and 1978 in the process of preparing Darkness on the Edge of Town. In hi...

The Boss calls 1978’s Darkness on the Edge of Town his “samurai” album. But given the fact that, in the end, only ten songs were used from the gruelin...

I’ve always felt a little uneasy about Bruce Springsteen. There just seemed to be too much work getting in the way of his music. There’s the whole New...

The album opens with a haunting harmonica wail and slow and deliberate piano and that voice ? your mind can see the tendons straining in his neck - an...

The Boss calls 1978’s Darkness on the Edge of Town his “samurai” album. But given the fact that, in the end, only ten songs were used from the gruelin...

Here’s a thing, The Promise is an album full of songs that didn’t make it on to Springsteen’s classic album ‘Darkness On The Edge Of Town’. That fac...

Now is a time for looking back for the aging rock icon. Last year, Neil Young finally dropped the first installment of his long rumored Archives set a...

After being proclaimed “the future of rock‘n’roll” in 1975 following the commercial success of Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen went back to the drawing...

It would be wrong for me not to declare a certain bias when discussing 'The Boss'. As a man completely indifferent to football from a family of obsess...

There are two ways to hear the songs on Bruce Springsteen’s The Promise. Cynically, they can be heard as the songs that weren’t good enough for Spring...