Bruce Springsteen - VH-1 Storytellers, Two River Theater, Red Bank, NJ, 4-4-2005

Here's a particularly interesting "VH-1 Storytellers" episode. This one features Bruce Springsteen.

Perhaps it's not surprising that Springsteen agreed to do this show, since he's been known to talk quite a lot between songs. But he approached this in a very unusual way. Typically, after playing a song, he then played it again, but starting and stopping, and explaining the meaning of the lyrics line for line. None of the other Storytellers episodes that I came across featured this level of lyrical analysis, that's for sure.

Technically, the "talk" tracks make up nearly an hour of this hour and a half long concert. But that's misleading since a good portion of those "talk" tracks has him playing and singing some as he did that lyrical analysis. There also was a question and answer session.

And speaking of how long this episode is, the reason this is so long is because the concert was later released as a DVD (but not an audio album). So it wasn't edited down to the usual 45 minutes or so of the typical episodes for this show. That also means we didn't have to suffer the usual problem of having only half of the opening song.

The concert was almost entirely just Springsteen, playing either an acoustic guitar or piano. But he was supported on backing vocals on some songs by his wife, Patti Scialfa. He would release the studio album "Devils and Dust" later the same month as this concert. That is a solo acoustic album, so it's fitting he also did this in solo acoustic format. However, only two of the songs performed are from that album: "Devils and Dust" and "Jesus Was an Only Son."

This album is an hour and 36 minutes long.

01 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
02 Devils and Dust (Bruce Springsteen)
03 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
04 Blinded by the Light (Bruce Springsteen)
05 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
06 Brilliant Disguise (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen)
08 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
09 Jesus Was an Only Son (Bruce Springsteen)
10 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
11 Waiting on a Sunny Day [False Start] (Bruce Springsteen)
12 Waiting on a Sunny Day (Bruce Springsteen)
13 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
14 The Rising (Bruce Springsteen)
15 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
16 Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen)
17 talk (Bruce Springsteen)

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The cover photo is from this exact concert.