Blood Brothers (EP)
| Blood Brothers | ||||
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Tramps, New York City | ||||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 23:01 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Bruce Springsteen Jon Landau Chuck Plotkin | |||
| Bruce Springsteen chronology | ||||
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the E Street Band chronology | ||||
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Blood Brothers is a five-song
Background
Four of the five songs on the EP were written and recorded in 1995 during the band's Greatest Hits sessions while "Murder Incorporated" was recorded live at Tramps, NYC in February 1995. The 1995 sessions marked the first time since 1984 that Springsteen and the entire E Street Band recorded together. Part of the band had worked on Springsteen's 1987 album, Tunnel of Love before Springsteen split from the E Street Band in 1989.
The title track was also released on the Greatest Hits album in an acoustic version. The studio version of "Murder Incorporated" can also be found on Greatest Hits along with the original version of "
In 2013, Springsteen re-recorded "High Hopes" to be the first single off of his eighteenth studio album,
Track listing
All tracks are written by Bruce Springsteen, except where noted
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Blood Brothers (alternate rock version)" | 4:02 | |
| 2. | " High Hopes" | Tim Scott McConnell | 4:20 |
| 3. | "Murder Incorporated (Live)" | 5:47 | |
| 4. | "Secret Garden (string version)" | 4:27 | |
| 5. | "Without You" | 3:59 |
Personnel
- Bruce Springsteen - guitar, vocals, harmonica
- Roy Bittan - piano, backing vocals
- Clarence Clemons - saxophone, backing vocals, percussion
- Danny Federici - organ, synthesizer, backing vocals
- Nils Lofgren - electric guitar, backing vocals
- Patti Scialfa - acoustic guitar, vocals
- Garry Tallent - bass, backing vocals
- Steve Van Zandt- guitar, backing vocals
- Max Weinberg - drums, backing vocals
- David Kahne - string arrangement and string synthesizer on "Secret Garden"
- Lisa Lowell - backing vocals on "High Hopes"
- Frank Pagano - percussion on "High Hopes," backing vocals on "Without You"
- Chuck Plotkin - backing vocals on "Without You"
- Soozie Tyrell - backing vocals on "High Hopes"
References
- ^ "Bruce Springsteen - Blood Brothers".
- S2CID 162553215. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
- ISBN 0-19-511833-2.
- ISBN 0-415-96928-X.
- ISBN 1-903047-97-8.
- ISBN 978-1-55365-845-0.
- ^ http://greasylake.org/releases_record_info.php?id=26&s_release_title=Blood Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine Brothers
