Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle 1LP UD1S SuperVinyl Box Set

Track Listing

A1: The E Street Shuffle
A2: 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
A3: Kitty's Back
A4: Wild Billy's Circus Story

B1: Incident On 57th Street
B2: Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
B3: New York City Serenade

Strictly Limited to 7,500 Numbered Copies: The Mobile Fidelity UltraDisc One-Step 180g 33PM LP Set Presents The 1973 Album in Audiophile Sound

The Soulful Rock 'n' Roll Revue On Which Bruce Springsteen Becomes The Boss: The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle Teems With Discovery.

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Musically, the heartfelt 1973 record is inhabited by sympathetic vignettes and cinematic arrangements steeped in rock 'n' roll, soul, jazz, and R&B. It finds the New Jersey native looking beyond the parameters of his preceding record and seeking to move on from environments he knows well (and chronicles here) by rushing headlong toward unknown territories, adventures, and people. Underpinned by the singer-guitarist's ambitious poetic enterprise and will to succeed, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is the album on which Springsteen becomes the Boss.

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's renowned mastering system, pressed at RTI on MoFi SuperVinyl, and strictly limited to 7,500 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 33RPM LP set is the definitive-sounding version of Springsteen's sophomore record. Benefitting from SuperVinyl's nearly non-existent noise floor, superb groove definition, and dead-quiet surfaces, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle plays with a clarity, energy, presence, and openness that complement the expressiveness, dynamics, and scope of the seven restless songs that comprise a work Rolling Stone ranked the 345th Greatest Album of All Time.

Beyond the audiophile sonics that practically place you behind the console at 914 Sound Studios - listen to the separation between the instruments, natural decay of the notes, interplay within the widescreen soundstaging, and nothing-to-lose youthfulness of Springsteen's voice - this reissue takes seriously this record's influential merit by presenting it in packaging that underlines its status. Tucked in a beautiful slipcase, the LP is housed in a special foil-stamped jacket with faithful-to-the-original graphics. This reissue is made for listeners who prize sound quality and who want to engage themselves in everything involved with the invigorating set that busted Springsteen loose from the club circuit and landed him on the radio

Determined to liberate anyone within earshot and unafraid to come on strong, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle serves as the debut of the E Street Band - not only heard but seen for the first time by most of the public courtesy of the back-cover photograph. This is where saxophonist Clarence Clemons, organist-accordionist Danny Federici, and pianist David Sancious step out of the shadows - and drummer Vini Lopez and bassist Garry Tallent again stoke a fiery rhythmic engine that helps drive the untamed, reimagined big-band swing of "Kitty's Back," breathless R&B thrust of "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)," and carefree dance steps of the funky "The E Street Shuffle."

Of course, the main attraction remains a then-24-year-old visionary on the precipice of becoming a sensation and turning a then-bloated rock scene on its head. Recorded over three months while Springsteen and company were busy touring his debut LP, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle reflects the high-octane approach the vocalist embraced onstage and drifts away from the label-dictated acoustic-based frameworks of his debut. The set also witnesses Springsteen deepening his observational skills, with narratives such as the romantically tinged "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" and redemptive epic "Incident on 57th Street" mirroring changes taking place in the singer's own life, small towns, and America at large.

A thrilling collision of memories, reflections, and composites - Sandy, Rosalita, and the latter's parents are all based on actual people Springsteen knew, as is the community depicted in the opening track - the aptly titled The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle resonates decades on due to its truths, authenticity, and spirit. Those characteristics - as well as the fact that many of its lengthy songs come on as the equivalent of sweaty, feverish soul revue that won't stop until you've been exhausted - also explain how this now-iconic album triumphed over the reservations of industry "experts" that both demanded Springsteen re-record it and instructed deejays not to play it.

Yet there'd be no stopping a record that saw the past, present, and future, a band whose will would not be denied, and a phenomenon who was born to run. A never-ending invitation to act real cool and stay up all night, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle always feels alright.

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