UNEARTHED – CD DEMOS 1972

Temas:
1. Eloise                        
2. Jesse             
3. The Lady And The Doctor             
4. Prodigal Son                        
5. Visitation At Fort Horne                 
6. Hey Santa Ana                    
7. Song To The Orphans                   
8. Jazz Musician                     
9. Camilla Horn                       
10. Seaside Bar Song              
11. Hollywood Kids                     
12. Family Song                        
13. Evacuation Of The West               
14. War Nurse                
15. Marie             
16. Randolph Street (Master Of Electricity)   

Bruce Springsteen’s management has been trying to squash the distribution of a collection of 1972 demos, originally recorded under the guidance of the Boss’ first manager, Mike Appel.

Except for the disc’s misleading cover (a photo of the buffed, mid-’80s Bruce), Springsteen needn’t be embarrassed.

The 16-track album serves as a blueprint for sounds and styles he would later so successfully explore: The organ-fueled Jersey-shore bounce of »Hey Santa Ana» and »Seaside Bar Song» is a clear precursor to »Rosalita,» while the spare, Great Plains balladeering of Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad are mapped out in the brooding folk music and narratives of »Border Guard» and »War Nurse.» Even when overwritten (»Evacuation of the West») or unnecessarily maudlin (»The Lady and the Doctor»), the songs are vivid reminders of the vigor Springsteen brought to singer-songwriter land in the early ’70s.

Part of that energy, Unearthed reveals, stemmed from an underlying uneasiness and anger largely absent from Springsteen’s official 1973 debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. »Jesse» takes to task a rock star who »walks off the stage with a self-adoring haze.» Springsteen’s feelings about his parents and their relocation to California crop up in the conflicted »Family Song,» and class consciousness rears its head in sketchy observational numbers like »Hollywood Kids» and »Song to the Orphans.» His indignation comes to a head in the mesmerizing »Prodigal Son,» a state-of-the-Nixon-nation rant that finds a startlingly embittered young Bruce railing against low-rent presidents, »defense-department crooks,» and drooling hotel maids.
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