BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "Devils & Dust" Sealed 2005 US LP New

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Bruce Springsteen / Devils & Dust - Columbia Records C2 93900 (Stereo)(US)(2005) ...This auction is for a factory sealed, limited edition Double Record on US vinyl. It was only available for a very short time and is no longer in print.

At the midpoint of George W. Bush's administration, Bruce Springsteen released Devils & Dust, another collection of story songs that would seem on the surface to be a companion to his earlier albums Nebraska and Ghost of Tom Joad, but in actuality is quite a different record than either. While the characters that roam through Devils & Dust are similarly heartbroken, desperate, and downtrodden, they're far removed from the criminals and renegades of Nebraska, and the album doesn't have the political immediacy of Ghost's latter-day Woody Guthrie-styled tales -- themes that tied together those two albums. Here, the songs and stories are loosely connected.

Track listings and review below...

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Detailed item info:

Track listing
RECORD 1:
(Side One) 1. Devils & Dust
2. All the Way Home
3. Reno

(Side Two)
1. Long Time Comin'
2. Black Cowboys
3. Maria's Bed

RECORD 2:
(Side One)
1. Silver Palomino
2. Jesus Was an Only Son
3. Leah

(Side Two)
01. The Hitter
02.  All I'm Thinkin' About
03. Matamoras Banks

Details Producer: Brendan O'Brien, Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Plotkin Distributor: Sony Music Distribution
Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo
Album notes Personnel: Bruce Springsteen (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, drums, tambourine, percussion); Marty Rifkin (steel guitar); Brendan O'Brien (hurdy-gurdy, sarangi, sitar, bass guitar, tambora); Soozie Tyrell (violin, background vocals); The Nashville String Machine (strings); Brice Andrus, Susan Welty, Thomas Witte, Donald Strand (horns); Chuck Plotkin (piano); Danny Federici (keyboards); Steve Jordan (drums); Patti Scialfa, Lisa Lowell (background vocals); Mark Pender.

In much the same way that he followed the full-on assault of THE RIVER with the scaled-down, folk-based NEBRASKA, some two-and-a-half decades later, Bruce Springsteen made another stylistic about-face. In stark contrast to its predecessor, 2002's uplifting, epic-scale rocker THE RISING, DEVILS & DUST is a spare, quiet, acoustic-oriented album full of shadows and whispers.
Where THE RISING, a direct response to the tragedy of 9/11, rallied the spirit with impassioned optimism, the characters Bruce inhabits on DEVILS & DUST are often neck-deep in regret, bitterness, and despair. Not only does the album demonstrate the width of Springsteen's emotional range; perhaps more importantly, it contains some of his finest writing since its spiritual cousin, 1987's similarly harrowing, low-key TUNNEL OF LOVE. Over a bed of acoustic guitars, occasional keyboards, and a no-frills rhythm section (plus the odd string section--a new wrinkle), Bruce matches hard-won emotional insights with poetic reveries that never abandon personal resonance for flights of fancy. In the process, he careens sharply away from those who would freeze him in the full-bore-rocker role of which he sometimes wearies.

Editorial reviews 4 stars out of 5 - [T]he tone is sombre, drenched in memories and regrets. In the tradition of JOAD or NEBRASKA, Springsteen aims for a sense of timelessness.
Uncut  

[D]EVILS is a more mature effort than JOAD and NEBRASKA, for being a little less bleak... - Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly  

4.5 stars out of 5 - [R]endered with a subdued, mostly acoustic flair that smells of wood smoke and sparkles in the right places like stars in a clear Plains sky.
Rolling Stone  

Ranked #4 in Mojo's The 50 Best Albums Of 2005 - [E]erie, funny, melancholy, sombre, broken, foul-mouthed, joyous. In a word, human.
Mojo  

Ranked #48 in Mojo's 100 Modern Classics -- Springsteen's the invisible creator on the inside of each character, persuading us to feel, see and connect.
Mojo  

Opener 'Devils and Dust' spotlights Springsteen's spare acoustic strums and gorgeously worn growls.
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