Chapter and Verse (Bruce Springsteen album)


Chapter and Verse is an album by Bruce Springsteen that was released on September 23, 2016. The album is a companion piece to Springsteen's 500-plus-page autobiography, Born to Run, which was released four days later. The career-spanning album features eighteen songs handpicked by Springsteen, five of which have never been released. The album contains Springsteen's earliest recording from 1966 and late '60s/early '70s songs from his tenure in The Castiles, Steel Mill and The Bruce Springsteen Band along with his first 1972 demos for Columbia Records and songs from his studio albums from 1973 until 2012.

Commercial performance

Chapter and Verse debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with 29,000 units, including 27,000 traditional album sales.

Track listing

  1. "Baby I" — 1:55
  2. *The Castiles
  3. "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" — 2:54
  4. *The Castiles
  5. "He’s Guilty " — 4:39
  6. *Steel Mill
  7. "Ballad of Jesse James" — 5:30
  8. *The Bruce Springsteen Band
  9. "Henry Boy" — 3:17
  10. *
  11. "Growin' Up" — 2:42
  12. *
  13. "4th of July, Asbury Park " — 5:34
  14. *
  15. "Born to Run" — 4:30
  16. *
  17. "Badlands" — 4:01
  18. *
  19. "The River" — 4:59
  20. *
  21. "My Father's House" — 5:04
  22. *
  23. "Born in the U.S.A." — 4:37
  24. *
  25. "Brilliant Disguise" — 4:14
  26. *
  27. "Living Proof" — 4:45
  28. *
  29. "The Ghost of Tom Joad" — 4:21
  30. *
  31. "The Rising" — 4:47
  32. *
  33. "Long Time Comin'" — 4:13
  34. *
  35. "Wrecking Ball" — 5:49
  36. *

    Charts and certifications

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