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Seventies Springsteen comes charging back
New album‘The Promise’ features ‘Darkness’ outtakes
by Allison Stewart
The endless, tension-filled ses- sions for Bruce Springsteen’s 1978 masterwork “Darkness on the Edge of Town” yielded some 70 songs; only 10 would make the finished version. Twenty-one of those missing tracks show up on “The Promise,” a two-disc col- lection of outtakes that is, if not the great lost Springsteen album, then at least a very good one. Because of a drawn-out legal
battle with former manager Mike Appel, Springsteen was ef- fectively barred from the studio between the release of the leg- end-making “Born to Run” in 1975 and the recording of “Dark- ness” in 1977. Written in the in- terim, the tracks on “The Prom- ise” are a revelation, the missing link in the evolution of Spring- steen’s sound from the Spector- ian operatics of “Born to Run” to the spartan solemnity of “Dark- ness.” The tracks will be bundled into a three-CD/three-DVD set titled “The Promise: The Dark- ness on the Edge of Town Story,” which will also include rare live footage, a remastered version of “Darkness” and a feature-length documentary. More significant- ly, “The Promise” will also be sold as a stand-alone set, a rare instance of an outtake collection being made available uncoupled from its source material. Suspended in place between “Born to Run” and “Darkness,” most of the songs on “The Prom- ise” bear the unmistakable traces of one album or the other. Un- official “Born to Run” successors like “Gotta Get That Feeling” and “Rendezvous” are raucous, if slight, exercises in jangly, girl- group-inspired pop that would have felt nostalgic even in 1977; the giddy “Ain’t Good Enough for You” is the love child of the Shi- relles and Gary U.S. Bonds. “Born to Run” was about
avoiding the realities of adult- hood: “Darkness” was about fac- ing them down. Its “Promise” forerunners are easy to spot: “Candy’s Boy” is “Candy’s Room” in template; “It’s a Shame” evokes both a slowed-down “Badlands” and “Streets of Fire”; “Come On (Let’s Go Tonight)” is “Factory” with nominally more instrumentation and a love in- terest; too much instrumenta- tion also likely doomed an al- ternate, rock version of eventual ballad “Racing in the Street.” It’s not a lack of quality that consigned these tracks to out- take purgatory. “Darkness” was a Statement Record: serious, im- portant, purposeful. Many of these castoffs were regarded as too punchy, too lighthearted. Love songs were also disallowed, which explains the exclusion of “Because the Night” (given, half- finished, to Patti Smith) and “Fire” (wisely given to the Point- er Sisters, though Springsteen’s later live version trumps them both). Available here in a sped- up, Bruce-as-Elvis-impersonator version, “Fire” is the only song on “The Promise” that feels per- functory. The remarkable title track, for decades the Holy Grail of lost Springsteen songs, is thought to be a fable about both the singer’s fractured relationship with Ap- pel and his equally fraught rela- tionship with his newfound fame (“Every day it just gets
harder to live / This dream I’m believing in”). Three months in the making and worth every sec- ond, its exclusion from “Dark- ness” still mystifies.
style@washpost.com
Stewart is a freelance writer. Recommended tracks:
“The Brokenhearted,” “Candy’s Boy,” “The Promise,” “Because the Night”
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