Unreleased songs part of companion album to Springsteen book

A new compilation album will be released alongside the release of Bruce Springsteen’s 500 page autobiography.

The recording will include previously unreleased material from his first band, The Castilles, and his pre-E Street Band group Steel Mill.

Steel Mill’s “He’s Guilty (The Judge Song)’ from February 1970 is also featured with The Bruce Springsteen Band contributing “The Ballad of Jesse James”, recorded in March 1972″.

The album will be titled Chapter and Verse, and includes 18 tracks-some demos reaching as far back as 1972, reports Billboard.

Stay on topic – This helps keep the thread focused on the discussion at hand. Chapter and Verse will be released September 23 on Columbia Records.

The star said: “Writing about yourself is a amusing business”. “But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind”.

Through the years, Bruce Springsteen has been generous with fans who meticulously search for obscure, fresh, rearranged, “forgotten”, and hard-to-find audio from the span of his career.

Springsteen and The E Street Band are now in the midst of their “The River” world tour, which ends on September 14 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. Bruce Springsteen: “Henry Boy” 6. “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” 8.

Springsteen selected the songs on Chapter and Verse to reflect the themes and sections of Born to Run. “Badlands” (1977, “Darkness on the Edge of Town”) 10. “My Father’s House” 12. “Brilliant Disguise” (1987, “Tunnel of Love”) 14. Bruce Springsteen: “The Rising” 17.