Devils & Dust

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Commercially Released: April 25, 2005
Label: Columbia
Produced* by Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Plotkin, Brendan O'Brien
Recorded by Nick Didia, Toby Scott, assisted by Tom Tapley, Billy Bowers, Karl Egsieker at Thrill Hill East
 and Thrill Hill West (1996 - 2004), Horns at Southern Tracks Studios (2004), Strings at Masterphonics Studios (2004)
Mixed* by Brendan O'Brien, Toby Scott
Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Design by Dave Bett, Michelle Holme, Chris Austopchuk
Photography by Anton Corbijn
Horn and string arrangements by Eddie Horst

^{* "All The Way Home" and "Long Time Comin'" produced by Springsteen-Plotkin-O’Brien. "Matamoros Banks", "Leah", "Black Cowboys" and "Jesus Was An Only Son" mixed by Toby Scott.}

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Overview

Devils & Dust is the thirteenth studio album by American recording artist Bruce Springsteen, and his third acoustic album (after Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad). It was released on April 25, 2005, in Europe and on April 26, 2005, in the United States. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 album chart. Springsteen was very open about the fact that many of the songs from Devils & Dust dated back a decade or more. He wrote the song "All the Way Home" for Southside Johnny to use in his album Better Days, which was released in 1991. The songs "Long Time Comin'" and "The Hitter" were written and performed during Springsteen's solo Ghost of Tom Joad Tour in 1996. "Devils & Dust" is also known to have been written previously, and was featured in soundchecks during The Rising-tour beginning in the summer of 2003 and the following year during the Vote for Change Tour in late 2004. (Springsteen had "Devils & Dust" on his set list for at least one Vote for Change show, but at the last moment decided to perform a 12 string guitar rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner", which he would later release for free through his official website).

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Released

#	Song Title	Running Time	Release
1.	DEVILS & DUST ¹	4:58	DEVILS / 2005 single
2.	ALL THE WAY HOME	3:38	DEVILS / 2005 single
3.	RENO ¹	4:08	DEVILS
4.	LONG TIME COMIN' ¹	4:17	DEVILS
5.	BLACK COWBOYS	4:08	DEVILS
6.	MARIA'S BED	5:35	DEVILS
7.	SILVER PALOMINO	3:22	DEVILS
8.	JESUS WAS AN ONLY SON	2:54	DEVILS
9.	LEAH	3:31	DEVILS
10.	THE HITTER	5:53	DEVILS
11.	ALL I'M THINKIN' ABOUT ¹	4:22	DEVILS
12.	MATAMOROS BANKS ¹	4:20	DEVILS

^{Total Running Time: 50:51}

^{1: These studio recordings tracks, also come in a video live version with the bonus-package.

These were filmed live by director Danny Clinch in February 2005 in New Jersey.}

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DEVILS & DUST

4:58

DEVILS / ESSENTIAL: 2015

Note: Song written in mid-2003 (first known from appearances at soundchecks in April 2003) and the only song on Devils & Dust positively verified to have been composed after 2001. Springsteen handles vocals, guitar and keyboards, with Brendan O'Brien on bass and Steve Jordan on drums. The strings (Nashville String Machine) and horns (Susan Welty and Thomas Witte) were added later. Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, Los Angeles & New Jersey with additional recording at Southern Tracks Recording, Atlanta, GA. Strings recorded at Masterphonics, Nashville, TN, Mixed at Southern Tracks, additional Mix at Thrill Hill Recording Los Angeles.

ALL THE WAY HOME - V1	3:54	GUEST: BETTERDAYS
ALL THE WAY HOME - V2	3:38	DEVILS

Note: Written sometime in 1990 or early 1991. Springsteen donated the song to Southside Johnny and Bruce took part in the July 1991 recording session in New York that produced Southside's cover version. Bruce re-recorded the song in 2004 and released it on the Devils & Dust album. From a recently surfaced Sampler a version of the song was considered for Tracks.

RENO

4:08

DEVILS

Note: The core recording (which may date from 1997–98) is Springsteen solo, on all instruments (vocals, guitar, keyboards, and tambourine). The strings (Nashville String Machine) and horns (Brice Andrus, Donald Strand, Susan Welty, and Thomas Witte) were recorded and added in 2004.

LONG TIME COMIN' - V1		uncirculating
LONG TIME COMIN' - V2	4:17	DEVILS / ESSENTIAL: 2015 / CHAPTER

Note: Written by Bruce in the summer or early autumn of 1996 while on the Ghost Of Tom Joad Tour and premiered live on October 16, 1996. The Devils & Dust recording is a hybrid of two sessions quite some years apart. The basic track (V1) with Danny Federici, Marty Rifkin, Soozie Tyrell and Patti Scialfa, emanates from 1997 or 1998, was cut at Thrill Hill West, Beverly Hills. CA. It was recorded by Toby Scott and produced by Springsteen and Chuck Plotkin. An early Tracks six-CD sample set from June 1998 indicates that "Long Time Comin'" was considered for Tracks, but ultimately rejected. It's highly likely that this is V1, perhaps with some 1997 or 1998 overdubs to complete the song.

The drums (Steve Jordan) and bass guitar (Brendan O’Brien)were added to the mix in 2004, at Masterphonics, Nashville, Tennessee, and Southern Tracks Recording, Atlanta, Georgia, which is the likely reason why this released version is credited as a Springsteen-Plotkin-O'Brien production, and issued on Devils & Dust.

BLACK COWBOYS