The River is the fifth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. It was released on October 17, 1980, by Columbia Records. Springsteen's only double album, The River was produced by Jon Landau, Springsteen, and bandmate Steven Van Zandt. The album was Springsteen's first to go on the Billboard 200 and spent four weeks at the top of chart. The River" was nominated for Best Rock Vocal Performance at the 1982 Grammy Awards.
Columbia Records released Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Ties That Bind: The River Collection’ on December 4th, 2015. A comprehensive look at ‘The River’ era, the set contains 52 tracks on 4 CDs with a wealth of unreleased material, and 4 hours of never-before-seen video on 3 DVDs . The River: Single Album’ is the 10-track album that Springsteen recorded in 1979 as a follow up to 1978’s ‘Darkness On The Edge Of Town’ but never released. The songs lacked the kind of unity and conceptual intensity I liked my music to have.
The Ties That Bind: The River Collection. 1 2 3 4 5. Bruce Springsteen. Bruce Springsteen - Where The Bands Are. 03:43. dl. Bruce Springsteen - Living On The Edge Of The World.
The Ties That Bind: The River Collection’ is packaged in a 10 x 12 box with a hardcover 148-page coffee table book containing 200 studio and live photographs plus pages from Springsteen’s notebooks, single covers, images and outtakes from the original album package, and other memorabilia documenting the album. The sticker on the shrink wrap says. Bruce springsteen the ties that BIND the river collection. 4CD/2 blu-ray box set contains 52 tracks on 4 cds including 12 rarities. Over 4 hours of never before seen video including performances from bruce's 1980 tempe, az concert.
The Ties That Bind: The River Collection was released in 2015 to honor the 35th anniversary of The River, which was the first Springsteen album to chart on Billboard 200 for four consecutive weeks. This boxed set collection comprises of four discs: two that contain The River in its original sequence, one disc containing a reimagining of The River condensed down to a single album (the way Springsteen originally envisioned it), and the fourth and final disc contains outtakes from The River sessions. The tracklist here is composed of all outtakes from the fourth disc.
Bruce Springsteen sang about growing up on his first album, when he was 23, with the glee of a lost boy amazed to find anyone was listening. The Ties That Bind shows how charged with desperation the work was, almost as inexhaustible as the questions it asked. It expands the 1980 double album with 22 outtakes (half never before released) and a 10-song version of The River that Springsteen turned in to his label, then took back and spent a year expanding.
Having said that, The Ties That Bind: The River Collection in many ways belongs to Clarence Clemons, Roy Bittan and Danny Federici. Clemons's saxophone no longer takes extended solos like the magisterial one on "Jungleland", but his blasts of soul on "Sherry Darling", "Out on the Street", "Cadillac Ranch" and "Ties That Bind", sometimes no more than twenty seconds long, still provide the moral core and emotional resonance at the center of the band. After sessions from April through September 1979, he handed in an album to CBS that began with "The Ties That Bind" and included six other songs that would end up on The River. The problem, as he explained in Songs, was that this first draft "lacked the kind of unity and conceptual intensity I liked my music to have. And now we know: he was right. The Ties That Bind sounds like a musical resume or portfolio.