This Friday (23) Bruce Springsteen celebrates his 67th birthday and to celebrate it he has released a new compilation album under the name 'Chapter and Verse'. This new production of the Boss (the Boss), as he is known in North America, includes 18 songs that make an extensive journey through his successful artistic career.
The list of topics of 'Chapter and Verse' includes legendary Springsteen classics such as 'Born to run', 'Badlands', 'The river' or 'Born in the USA', plus five previously unreleased songs recorded between 1966 and 1972, all of them recorded prior to the publication of their debut album, 'Greetings from Asbury Park', a handful of songs that are a true record treasure and that makes this compilation unique with which its fans will celebrate in a big way.
The unreleased tracks included in 'Chapter and Verse' are 'Baby I', a song performed by a 16-year-old Springsteen in 1966 with his first band of adolescence, The Castiles, and a track where the rhythm of rock is already felt. energetic of the Chief; the classic 'You Can't Judge a Book by its', a cover by Willie Dixon, also with Los Castiles; 'He's guilty (The judge son)', a blues rock that he performed with his next band, Steel Mill; 'Ballad of Jesse James', a song in which his voice is already recognized and which is accompanied by the Bruce Springsteen Band with David Sancious's piano, and finally 'Henry boy', composed by Springsteen in 1972 and which he performs on voice. , only accompanied by his acoustic guitar.
The launch of 'Chapter and Verse' is complemented by the next edition of the autobiography of the American artist that is titled as one of his legendary record works: 'Born to run'. This 576-page autobiography will be published by Random House on September 27. 'Born to run' recounts key moments in the life of the Chief, recounting episodes of his childhood and adolescence in New Jersey (USA), the close relationship between his father who died in 1998 and the depression that has accompanied him in different periods of his 40-year career.