Extended Plays

More than 34 years after ‘Born in the USA’ was first released and 46 years after release of his first album ‘Greetings from Ashbury Park’, a count down The Boss’s Extended Plays (EPs) …

American Beauty (2014)

American Beauty is a collection of songs I cut at home. Upon revisiting them for High Hopes I recognized their potential and Ron Aniello and I worked on them until we’d turned them into the music before you. In the song “American Beauty,” I get to sing in a part of my range I don’t often visit and that along with its ‘guitar wall of sound’ gives it a little ‘exile on E Street’ power. “Mary Mary” is a lovely mystery, a small piece of heartbreak poetry that sneaks up on you with its slippery grove, punctuated string section and spectral lyrics. It came closest to making the High Hopes cut. “Hurry Up Sundown” is a fun piece of modern power pop, while “Hey Blue Eyes” rounds out the EP with one of my darkest political songs. Written during the Bush years, it’s a metaphor for the house of horrors our government’s actions created in the years following the invasion of Iraq. At its center is the repressed sexuality and abuse of power that characterized Abu Ghraib prison. I feel this is a shadow we as a country have yet to emerge from. Enjoy the music. – Bruce Springsteen

Rocky Ground (2012)

 Rocky Ground is the second single from the Bruce Springsteen album Wrecking Ball and was released exclusively in select stores as a limited-edition 7-inch 45 RPM vinyl single as a part of Record Store Day on April 21, 2012. The song made its live debut on March 9, 2012, during Springsteen and the E Street Band’s performance at the  Apollo Theatre. The B-side contains The Promise live from the Carousel, Asbury Park.

Live From The Carousel (2011)

Live From The Carousel is a two-song limited edition 10-inch 45-rpm vinyl single by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. The single consists of two live tracks and was released on April 16, 2011. The performances captured were recorded on December 7, 2010 at The Carousel in Asbury Park, New Jersey and feature the last E Street Band performances by Clarence Clemons, who died in June 2011.

Save My Love (2010)

The tracklist contains two numbers. ‘Save My Love on the A-side and ‘Because The Night on the B-side. 500 copies released on Nov.26, 2010, for Black Friday Record Store Day in the USA.  

What Love Can Do (2009)

Besides the track ‘What Love Can Do’ does this Limited Edition 7-inch single released in 2009 contains the track ‘A Night With The Jersey Devil’ on the B-side.

Magic Tour Highlights (2008)

Recorded during the 2008 Magic tour, with guests Alejandro Escovedo (Houston, April 14), Tom Morello (Anaheim, April 7) and Roger McGuinn (Orlando, April 23). “Sandy” is taken from Danny Federici’s last performance with the E Street Band (Indianapolis, March 20). Proceeds from sales of this digital-only EP benefit the Danny Federici Melanoma Fund.

Girls in their Summer Clothes (2008)

“Girls in their Summer Clothes,” from 2007’s Magic, entered the Billboard Hot 100 and won the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. This digital-only EP includes two audio tracks, the “Winter Mix” and a live performance from the 2007 Magic tour, as well as the song’s Mark Pellington-directed music video, filmed in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove, NJ.

Live & Rare (2003)

The Live & Rare EP, released only in Europe in 2003, features four live tracks from two vintage shows. Two performance not included on the In Concert/MTV Plugged album, and two solo acoustic cuts from Philadelphia’s Tower Theater in 1995.

Lonesome Day (2002)

EP released in August 2002 with three songs. Lonesome Day is the opening track of Bruce Springsteens album The Rising.

Blood Brothers (1996)

Blood Brothers is a five-song EP by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, released in 1996. The EP was originally released along with a film, also titled Blood Brothers, which documented the 1995 temporary reuniting of Springsteen with the band to record extra tracks for his Greatest Hits release of that year.

Missing (1996)

Album with four tracks. Missing and three songs live performed at ICC SAAL 1 in Berlin, Germany in April 1996: Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Born In The USA. and Spare Parts.

Dead Man Walkin’ (1996)

Maxi-single released in 1996 with four songs: Dead Man Walkin’, highway 29, This Hard Land, Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street? 

The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995)

EP released with three songs. Besides the title song two songs, Straight Time and Sinaloa Cowboys, recorded live at The Tower Theater, Philadelphia, in December 1995. 

Hungry Heart (1995)

Maxi-single with album version of Hungry Heart, as well the Berlin ’95 version. Track 3 and 4, Streets Of Philadelphia and Thunder Road, are recorded live at Sony Studios in New York in May 1995.

Roll Of The Dice (1992)

Released in 1992 in Japan. Three tracks: Roll Of The Dice, Leap Of Faith (live), and 30 Days Out (previously unreleased).

Chimes of Freedom (1988)

This four-track, live EP was released to benefit the Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Tour. Springsteen announced his involvement in the tour during a show in Stockholm, just prior to the band’s performance of Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom”, as featured on the EP. Other tracks were selected from earlier tour stops in Detroit and Los Angeles.

Live Collection (1978)

Live Collection is the name of a Japanese 1987 four song live Bruce Springsteen EP. The EP features two tracks that did not make it into the Live/1975-85 collection: “For You” and “Incident on 57th Street”. The River Tour performance of “Incident on 57th Street” released on this EP was the song’s last outing until their 1999 reunion tour and has helped make this song a live favorite.