DEVILS & DUSTAufgenommen in den Thrill Hill Recording Studio, Los Angeles und Southern Tracks Studio, Atlanta
Veröffentlichung am 26. April 2005
Mitwirkende Künstler: Bruce Springsteen - Gesang, Gitarre
Soozie Tyrell - Violine
Steve Jordan - Schlagzeug
Brendan O'Brien - Bass
Patti Scialfa - Background Vocals
Lisa Lowell - Background Vocals
Marty Rifkin - Steet Guitar
Dan Federici - Keyboards (Long Time Coming)
Chuck Plotkin - Piano (All the Way Home)
Nashville String Machine - Geigen
Brice Andrus, Donald Strand, Susan Welty, Thomas Witte - Hörner
Mark Pender - Trompete (Leah)
Produktion: Brendan O'Brien - Produzent
Danny Clinch - Coverfoto
Chuck Plotkin - Mixing
Toby Scott - Mixing
Tracklist: Devils & Dust
All The Way Home
Reno
Long Time Comin'
Black Cowboys
Maria's Bed
Silver Palomino
Jesus Was an Only Son
Leah
The Hitter
All I'm Thinkin' About
Matamoras Banks
+ Special DVD mit Videos
Infos:Das Album wurde von Brendan O'Brien produziert und zwischen November und Dezember 2004 in den Thrill Hill Tonstudios in Los Angeles und New Jersey aufgenommen. Die E-Street Band war ausser Danny Federici am neuen Album nicht beteiligt. Vorrangig haben Steve Jordan (Drums), Brendan O'Brien (Bass), Soozie Tyrell (Violine) und Ehefrau Patti Scialfa am neuen Album mitgewirkt.
In Amerika wird "Devils & Dust" als Dual Disk erscheinen, Seite 1 beinhaltet das Album mit allen Songs. Auf der Rückseite findet man eine DVD mit einer Audio- sowie einer Videospur. Die DVD wird über einen 5.1 Surround Sound verfügen und einen "Devils and Dust" Film von Danndy Clinch enthalten, der Bruce Springsteen bei der Arbeit zum neuen Album zeigt. Ausserdem mit dabei sind Videos von "Devils and Dust", "Long Time Coming", "Reno", "All I'm Thinkin' About" und Matamoras Banks".
In Europa wird das Album mit einer Special DVD ausgeliefert.
Nach Ende der "Rising Tour" 2002 / 2003 schrieb Bruce Springsteen neue Songs für das Album "Devils and Dust".
Der Song "Devils & Dust" stammt aus dem Jahre 2001 und wurde ursprünglich für das "Rising Album" geschrieben aber nicht veröffentlicht. Zum ersten Mal wurde der Song während eines Soundchecks am 11. April 2003 in Vancouver geprobt.
"Long Time Comin'" stammt aus der "The Ghost of Tom Joad" Zeit. Zum ersten Mal wurde das Lied am 16. Oktober 1996 im Paramount Theatre in Denver gespielt.
"The Hitter" wurde ebenfalls für "The Ghost of Tom Joad" geschrieben feierte am 13. November 1996 im Landmark Theatre, Syracuse, NY seine Weltpremiere.
"All the Way Home" wurde 1991 für das Southside Johnny Album "Better Days" geschrieben und veröffentlicht. Auf "Devils & Dust" hat Bruce den Song komplett überarbeitet und neu eingespielt.
Alle anderen Songs wurden extra für "Devil & Dust" komponiert. Ein weiterer Song namens "Little Things" wurde eingespielt, aber nicht veröffentlicht.
Rezension aus dem Rolling Stone Magazin:Bruce Springsteen's thirteenth studio album is, in many ways, his most conventional singer-songwriter record since his 1973 debut, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Devils and Dust is twelve songs of assorted vintage and narrative setting, rendered with a subdued, mostly acoustic flair that smells of wood smoke and sparkles in the right places like stars in a clear Plains sky. There is no connected, redemptive urgency to these stories; this is not The Rising. And there is no E Street Band to turn Springsteen's trademark compulsion to save and be saved into fireball baptism: You get Steve Jordan on drums, producer Brendan O'Brien on bass and Springsteen on almost everything else, with his wife, singer Patti Scialfa, and E Street violinist Soozie Tyrell making brush-stroke appearances.
Yet Devils and Dust is, in striking and affecting ways, also Springsteen's most audacious record since the home-demo American Gothic of 1982's Nebraska. It opens with mortal sin - the title song, a sand-caked letter home from a war where both sides kill in God's name - and ends in death: "Matamoros Banks," a prayer for remembrance by an illegal immigrant who doesn't make it across the Rio Grande. With its tender fingerpicking, singing-wire curls of dobro and soft, billowing orchestration, "Reno" floats like a night breeze through an open bedroom window. But the sex inside is adulterous and graphic, and it costs: " 'Two hundred dollars straight in/Two-fifty up the ass,' she smiled and said." In the next song, "Long Time Comin'," Springsteen uses the word "xxxx" for the first time on record, in the sense of swearing never to screw up again. There is no apology, though, in "The Hitter": A fallen boxer frankly recalls the brutality of a life in which a man is paid to all but murder other men for entertainment. Springsteen first played the song in his 1995-1997 solo acoustic shows; he sings it here with a vivid, craggy exhaustion. The knockout punch actually comes in the first verse - the palooka is confessing to his mother. After that, it's all blood, shards of bone and universal guilt: "Understand, in the end, Ma, every man plays the game/ If you know one different, then speak out his name." "The Hitter" is one of several songs on Devils and Dust that Springsteen wrote almost a decade ago, in a concentrated burst of inspiration as he toured behind the spectral-country song cycle, 1995's The Ghost of Tom Joad. He reprises the dust-bowl topography and marooned spirits of that album with moving results. In "Long Time Comin'," a rustic sprint lit with square-dance fiddle and pearly steel guitar, a father prays for his children as the family sleeps rough, under "the sword of Orion": "If I had one wish in this Godforsaken world, kids/It'd be that your mistakes would be your own." But Devils and Dust is also as immediate and troubling as this morning's paper. These people are our neighbors, and these worries are Springsteen's, too. He wrote the title song in 2003, after the start of the Iraq War, and it shows. His cracked, vocal agony when he looks his God in the eye ("I've got my finger on the trigger/And tonight faith just ain't enough") is as old as Stephen Crane and as fresh as Fallujah. "All the Way Home," in contrast, is much older than it seems, predating Springsteen's plunge into party politics last fall with the Vote for Change Tour. But he steps into the first lines - "I know what it's like to have failed, baby/With the whole world lookin' on" - with the grizzled force of experience. The specific echoes of the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man" - the bees-army buzz of sitar and tamboura coating the rolling twang - are no accident either.
There are times, like Springsteen's outbreak of whispered falsetto in the campfire rockabilly of "All I'm Thinkin' About," when you can't help waiting for the E Street payoff that never comes. But many of Springsteen's best songs, going back to "Born to Run," are about the salvation just out of reach, around the next curve and over the next hill - and what it takes to get there. The rewards are often slender here, when they come at all. Still, the promise never fades. "These days I don't stand on pride/ And I ain't afraid to take a fall," Springsteen sings with gravelly swagger in "All the Way Home" - like a guy already back on his feet.
Offizielle Presseerklärung:Columbia Records To Release 'Devils & Dust' On April 26
Columbia Records will release Bruce Springsteen's nineteenth album, 'Devils & Dust,' on April 26. 'Devils & Dust' features twelve new Springsteen songs.
'Devils & Dust' Track List:
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. The Hitter
11. All I'm Thinkin' About
12. Matamoras Banks
'Devils & Dust' was produced by Brendan O'Brien, who first worked with Springsteen on the acclaimed CD, 'The Rising.' The new album was recorded at Thrill Hill Recording Studios in Los Angeles and New Jersey with additional engineering at Southern Tracks Recording in Atlanta.
Springsteen is planning a tour to accompany the release of the album.
Bruce Springsteen's new album, 'Devils & Dust' (Columbia Records) will be released exclusively in DualDisc format on April 26 in the US, with the full album on CD on one side of the disc and DVD content on the other side.
The DVD side will feature the first live performances 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 will also contain the entire album mixed in 5.1 channel surround sound and in stereo.
Springsteen closed shows from 'The Rising' tour by showing Clinch's black and white, super 8mm film of the performer singing a country blues version of "Countin' on a Miracle," a track from 'The Rising.' Danny Clinch has directed several music films, including "Ben Harper: Pleasure and Pain," and has authored two books of photography.
Columbia Records will also release a deluxe edition of 'Devils & Dust' with bonus photographs and unique, song specific elements for each of the album's twelve tracks. The deluxe edition of 'Devils & Dust' will also be released in DualDisc format.
DualDisc releases are two-sided discs with a conventional CD side and a DVD side, allowing artists to use audio and video content on a single two-sided disc. For more information on DualDisc technology, please log on to
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Quelle: Columbia Records
Bruce album due in April; tour to followThe seeds for Bruce Springsteen's new album "Devils & Dust" were sown nearly a decade ago, when the singer-songwriter launched his first-ever solo acoustic tour.
"I was so excited after playing on that tour, I'd get off the stage and go write," Springsteen said about those 1995-96 dates. "Then I put those songs on the shelf for a while, until I had a chance to revisit them."
The visit is now complete, with a 12-song album due in stores on April 26 -- Springsteen's first release of all-new material since his Sept. 11-themed "The Rising" in July 2002.
A tour was planned to follow the release, although Springsteen said it was unclear if he would perform alone or with a small band.
Two of the new album's songs, "The Hitter" and "Long Time Comin'," were actually written and performed on "The Ghost of Tom Joad" tour. But not all the material dates back that far; the title track was written around the start of the war in Iraq, Springsteen said.
"It works as a metaphor for all the music underneath it, the individual stories of people wrestling with their demons," Springsteen said of the title track. "A lot of it is set in the west, in what feels like a rural setting.
"It's about people working through their confusions, sometimes well and sometimes tragically," he said in a telephone interview earlier this week.
Springsteen opted to record without the E Street Band for "Devils & Dust." The core group was Springsteen on guitar and other instruments, producer Brendan O'Brien on bass and drummer Steve Jordan, who had produced last year's "23rd Street Lullaby" album by Springsteen's wife, Patti Scialfa.
In keeping with his pattern of recording, the new album is a quieter, more acoustic affair than "The Rising." Springsteen, now 55, has alternated between large-scale rock records followed by more introspective material since 1982's "Nebraska" was released two years after "The River."
Pedal steel guitar, harmonica and violin fill in the sparse, rootsy arrangements. Springsteen, who says his vocal range has expanded with age, provides some higher-pitched vocals on the track "All I'm Thinking About." Springsteen said the accompanying tour would be an acoustic affair whether he performs alone or with a band, targeting theaters and smaller venues.
"I was actually signed as an acoustic act, and I've always enjoyed playing acoustic," Springsteen said. "Even when I was in a band, back in my early days, I was always writing songs that weren't meant for the band."
Quelle: Associated Press, 17.02.2005
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