Album · 1973
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is an album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1973 on Columbia, with 7 tracks.
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7 tracks · 47 min
"The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle" is the second album by Bruce Springsteen and the as-yet-unnamed E Street Band, and is described by Allmusic as "one of the greatest albums in the history of rock & roll." It was released in 1973. The album includes the song "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)," the band's most-used set-closing song for the first 10 years of its career. As with Springsteen's first album, it was well-received critically but had little commercial success at the time. However, once Springsteen achieved popularity with Born to Run, several selections from this album became popular FM radio airplay and concert favorites. In 2003, the album was ranked number 132 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. While Allmusic refers it to: "flawless piece of music" and of the album as a whole as "one of the greatest albums in the history of rock & roll"! On November 7, 2009, Springsteen and the E Street Band played the album in its entirety for the first time ever in a concert at Madison Square Garden.
