| Product Summary | | Label: SONY MUSIC | | UPC: 00827969390023 | | Release Date: 4/26/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 63973642 | | Item#: M29F7G |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Devils & Dust ~ Bruce Springsteen |  | | 2. All The Way Home ~ Bruce Springsteen | | | 3. Reno ~ Bruce Springsteen | | | 4. Long Time Comin' ~ Bruce Springsteen | | | 5. Black Cowboys ~ Bruce Springsteen | | | 6. Maria's Bed ~ Bruce Springsteen | | | 7. Silver Palomino ~ Bruce Springsteen | | | 8. Jesus Was An Only Son ~ Bruce Springsteen | | | 9. Leah ~ Bruce Springsteen | | | 10. Hitter, The ~ Bruce Springsteen | | | 11. All I'm Thinkin' About ~ Bruce Springsteen | | | 12. Matamoras Banks ~ Bruce Springsteen | |
| | Bruce Springsteen's album, Devils & Dust is available exclusively in DualDisc format with the full album on CD on one side of the disc and DVD content on the other side.
The DVD side features the first live performance of Devils & Dust material. Filmmaker/photographer Danny Clinch captured new, acoustic renditions of "Devils & Dust," "Long Time Comin'," "Reno," All I'm Thinkin' About," and "Matamoras Banks," each with Springsteen's extensive, personal introductions. The performances were filmed in New Jersey in February 2005. The DVD side contains the entire album mixed in 5.1 channel surround sound and in stereo.
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | 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. | | 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. |
Producer: Brendan O'Brien; Bruce Springsteen; Chuck Plotkin |
Engineer: Toby Scott; Nick DiDia |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/26/2005 | | Original Release Date : 2005 | | Catalog ID : 93900 | | Label : Columbia (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00827969390023 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (pp.69-70)
- 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."Entertainment Weekly (No. 817/818, p.144)
- "[D]EVILS is a more mature effort than JOAD and NEBRASKA, for being a little less bleak..." - Grade: A- Uncut (p.100)
- 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." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.58)
- 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 (Publisher)
(p.61)
- 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." |
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