The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (Vinyl)

*This is NOT a comic! But what kind of son would I be if I didn't carry one of my dad's favourite band? 

By Bruce Springsteen. Published by Columbia. 

Vinyl LP Record, 1973.

Released only eight months after his exhilarating debut, Bruce Springsteen’s The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle contains rousing dispatches from the boardwalk, the street, the beach, and the bedroom. It explodes with energy, dares to dream, teases with humor, crackles with tragedy, clings to hope, and overflows with discovery, youthfulness, and personality. The songs feature an unforgettable cast of characters illuminated by vivid color, breathtaking detail, and poetic action. Musically, the heartfelt 1973 record is inhabited by cinematic arrangements steeped in rock ‘n’ roll, soul, jazz, and R&B. It finds the New Jersey native looking beyond the parameters of his preceding record and seeking to move on from environments he knows well by rushing headlong toward unknown territories, adventures, and people. Underpinned by the singer-guitarist’s ambitious poetic enterprise and will to succeed, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is the album on which Springsteen becomes the Boss.

1. The E Street Shuffle
2. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
3. Kitty’s Back
4. Wild Billy’s Circus Story
5. Incident on 57th Street
6. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
7. New York City Serenade