I thought it was so he’d have an excuse to come to Seattle, explain himself, and play stuff from his new solo album. Well, he did do all of that in the Carter Subaru Mountain Music Lounge (the video’s up on our homepage right now,) but here’s the real story of his departure from BNL:

steven page on BNL

His new solo album, Page One, is coming out at the end of September and a tour will follow, so I’m pretty sure he’ll be back.

Just to satisfy my own curiosity, I asked Steven about the background of one of my favorite BNL songs, One Week:

steven page on one week

And for old time’s sake, here’s a really cool acoustic version of that song, recorded in Ed Robertson’s bathroom:

Finally, this may or not be renowned actor Morgan Freeman covering One Week:

Bruce will be releasing “The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story” on November 16.

The package will include 3 CDs, as well as 3 DVDs of never-before-seen footage and the notes from the recording sessions, which include alternate lyrics, song ideas, recording details, and personal notes from Springsteen.

If you want a sneak peek of the video, the documentary from this package will air on HBO come Oct. 7th. And as for the audio, listen here:

CD 1: REMASTERED ‘DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN’

1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Something In The Night
4. Candy’s Room
5. Racing In The Street
6. The Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets Of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

CD 2: THE PROMISE (DISC 1)

1. Racing In The Street (‘78)
2. Gotta Get That Feeling
3. Outside Looking In
4. Someday (We’ll Be Together)
5. One Way Street
6. Because The Night
7. Wrong Side Of The Street
8. The Brokenhearted
9. Rendezvous
10. Candy’s Boy

CD 3: THE PROMISE (DISC 2)

1. Save My Love
2. Ain’t Good Enough For You
3. Fire
4. Spanish Eyes
5. It’s A Shame
6. Come On (Let’s Go Tonight)
7. Talk To Me
8. The Little Things (My Baby Does)
9. Breakaway
10. The Promise
11. City Of Night

DVD 1: “THE PROMISE: THE MAKING OF ‘DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN’”

DVD 2: DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN (PARAMOUNT THEATER, ASBURY PARK, NJ, 2009)

1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Something In The Night
4. Candy’s Room
5. Racing In The Street
6. The Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets Of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

THRILL HILL VAULT (1976-1978)

1. Save My Love (Holmdel, NJ 76)
2. Candy’s Boy (Holmdel, NJ 76)
3. Something In The Night (Red Bank, NJ 76)
4. Don¹t Look Back (NYC 78)
5. Ain’t Good Enough For You (NYC 78)
6. The Promise (NYC 78)
7. Candy’s Room Demo (NYC 78)
8. Badlands (Phoenix 78)
9. The Promised Land (Phoenix 78)
10. Prove It All Night (Phoenix 78)
11. Born To Run (Phoenix 78)
12. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (Phoenix 78)

DVD 3: HOUSTON ‘78 BOOTLEG: HOUSE CUT

1. Badlands
2. Streets Of Fire
3. It¹s Hard To Be A Saint In The City
4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
5. Spirit In The Night
6. Independence Day
7. The Promised Land
8. Prove It All Night
9. Racing In The Street
10. Thunder Road
11. Jungleland
12. The Ties That Bind
13. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
14. The Fever
15. Fire
16. Candy’s Room
17. Because The Night
18. Point Blank
19. She’s The One
20. Backstreets
21. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
22. Born To Run
23. Detroit Medley
24. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
25. You Can’t Sit Down
26. Quarter To Three

Just about all the Boss that one would want. You know, except for the version of “Born to Run” from Glee.

See The Script in Seattle Saturday October 16th at Showbox Market

So this is the e-mail I recieved this morning from Gregg S.—

“I’ve had it!   I have been playing along with you music quiz for the last couple days now and the best I could do was 1 out of 3 correct answers.  These questions are impossible!   Please ask me some questions that I know!”

Gregg

Dear Gregg,

I’ve crafted a few questions just for you.  I hope you do better with these.   Good luck and stuff.

sd

OK, so I ran this quiz past three Mountain peeps and all of them went three for three.  Impressive!

Let’s see if you fare as well.