Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle LP Ultradisc One-Step

Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle

UD1S 180g 33RPM SuperVinyl LP Box Set

Released only eight months after his exhilarating debut, Bruce Springsteen’s The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle contains rousing dispatches from the boardwalk, the street, the beach,and the bedroom. It explodes with energy, dares to dream, teases with humor, crackles with tragedy, clings to hope, and overflows with discovery, youthfulness, and personality. The songs feature an unforgettable cast of characters illuminated by vivid color, breathtaking detail, and poetic action. Musically, the heartfelt record is inhabited by cinematic arrangements steeped in rock ‘n’ roll, soul, jazz, and R&B. It finds the New Jersey native looking beyond the parameters of his preceding record and seeking to move on from environments he knows well by rushing headlong toward unknown territories, adventures, and people.

Underpinned by the singer-guitarist’s ambitious poetic enterprise and will to succeed, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is the album on which Springsteen becomes the Boss. Mastered on Mobile Fidelity’s renowned mastering system, pressed at RTI on MoFi SuperVinyl, and strictly limited to 7,500 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity’s UltraDisc One-Step 180g 33RPM LP set is the definitive-sounding version of Springsteen’s sophomore record.

Benefitting from SuperVinyl’s nearly non-existent noise floor, superb groove definition, and dead-quiet surfaces, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle now plays with a clarity, energy, presence, and openness that complement the expressiveness, dynamics, and scope of the seven restless compositions that comprise a work Rolling Stone ranked the 345th Greatest Album of All Time.

Tracklist:
Side One:
1. The E Street Shuffle
2. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
3. Kitty’s Back
4. Wild Billy’s Circus Story

Side Two:
1. Incident on 57th Street
2. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
3. New York City Serenade

Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Released: 1973/2024