Bruce Springsteen - 1978-08-05 - Louisville, KY (SBD)

Bruce Springsteen
& The E Street Band
1978-08-05
Louisville Gardens
Louisville, KY
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

CD 1:
01. Badlands
02. Spirit In The Night
03. Sweet Little Sixteen
04. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
05. Factory
06. The Promised Land
07. Prove It All Night
08. Racing In The Street
09. Thunder Road
10. Jungleland
11. Paradise By The 'C'

CD 2:
01. 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy
02. Sherry Darling
03. Mona - She's The One
04. Growin' Up
05. Backstreets
06. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
07. Born To Run
08. Because The Night

Bruce Springsteen - 1978-08-05 - Louisville, KY (SBD)

On May 23, 1978, Bruce Springsteen launched a 115 show tour that would last through the end of the year in support of his new album, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, which was released on June 2. Darkness was Springsteen’s first disc since Born To Run In 1975; the 3 years wait the result of a legal battle with his former manager, Mike Appel. All 10 songs from the album found their way into the Bruce’s set list at some point during the tour, with Badlands taking the prominent role of show opener. Perhaps the long wait for the album had increased the level of emotion among Bruce’s loyal fans, as the shows on this tour are often described as intense. Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh wrote, for example, “The screaming intensity of those '78 shows are part of rock and roll legend in the same way as Dylan's 1966 shows with the Band, the Rolling Stones' tours of 1969 and 1972, and the Who's Tommy tour of 1969: benchmarks of an era.” This soundboard recording captures Bruce during that historic tour on August 5, 1978, 3 39 years ago today in Louisville.