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All rights reserved.| Track Listing 1. Devils & Dust 2. All the Way Home 3. Reno 4. Long Time Comin' 5. Black Cowboys 6. Maria's Bed 7. Silver Palomino 8. Jesus Was an Only Son 9. Leah 10. Hitter, The 11. All I'm Thinkin' About 12. Matamoras Banks
Album Notes This is a DualDisc, which contains a CD on one side of the disc and a DVD on the other. 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); 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. Recording information: Thrill Hill Recording, Los Angeles, California; Thrill Hill Recording, New Jersey; Southern Tracks, Atlanta, Georgia. 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 Uncut Entertainment Weekly Rolling Stone Mojo Mojo | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||
Reviews It is a good CD -- reminds me a lot of his way earlier Nebraska album -- a little "dark", but good. Probably won't listen to it say daily, but I will add it into a mix of cd's to play randomly. Review ID: 10000000005681299 Was this review helpful? Report this review Review created: 08/05/07 by: mudfence449 ( 3 ) 1 of 1 people found this review helpful. I love this album. I got it again because someone stole my first one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why would someone do that? I guess cause it is a great album !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review ID: 10000000004121825 Was this review helpful? Report this review Review created: 04/04/07 by: I like the Title song and had heard it on the Grammy Award show. Then I got it from my local library. It was scratched and I could not copy it to my computer or my IPOD, so I decided to BUY it. I got it from EBAY and found the same to be true about not being able to copy it... some how it is like a DVD/CD and the WORDS come up like 'KARAOKE', which is nice in a way because you cannot understand the words as BRUCE mumbles them. (the words are quite racey too, that is why he must mumble them, ha). I really like BRUCE, the music is good, but I would like to be able to copy it...if anyone knows HOW, let me know. Susan/MI Review ID: 10000000003307934 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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