''Chapter and Verse'' is a compilation album by

Bruce Springsteen Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He has released 21 studio albums, most of which feature his backing band, the E Street Band. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he is an originat ...

that was released on September 23, 2016. The album is a companion piece to Springsteen's 500-plus-page autobiography, ''

Born to Run ''Born to Run'' is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on August 25, 1975, by Columbia Records. As his effort to break into the mainstream, the album was a commercial success, peaking at number three ...

'', which was released four days later. The career-spanning album features eighteen songs handpicked by Springsteen, five of which have never been released. The album contains Springsteen's earliest recording from 1966 and late '60s/early '70s songs from his tenure in The Castiles, Steel Mill and the Bruce Springsteen Band along with his first 1972 demos for Columbia Records and songs from his studio albums from 1973 until 2012.

Commercial performance

''Chapter and Verse'' debuted at number five on the US ''Billboard'' 200 with 29,000 units, including 27,000 traditional album sales.

Track listing

All tracks are written by

, except where noted.

Personnel

Adapted from the album's liner notes: Track 1 *

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vocal The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound producti ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

* Curt Fluhr –

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gu ...

* Vinnie Manniello –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

* Paul Popkin –

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called " zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, thou ...

maracas A maraca (), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair. Maracas (from Guaraní ), also known as tamaracas, were ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...

* George Theiss – guitar, vocals *

Bob Ludwig Robert C. Ludwig (born c. 1945) is an American mastering engineer. He has mastered recordings on all the major recording formats for all the major record labels, and on projects by more than 1,300 artists including Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Quee ...

– mastering Track 2 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar * Bob Alfano – organ * Curt Fluhr – bass * Vinnie Manniello – drums * Paul Popkin – tambourine, maracas, vocals * George Theiss – guitar, vocals *Bob Ludwig – mastering Track 3 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar *

Danny Federici Daniel Paul Federici (January 23, 1950 – April 17, 2008) was an American musician, best known as the organ, glockenspiel, and accordion player and a founding member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. In 2014, Federici was posthumously induct ...

– organ,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are u ...

Vini Lopez Vincent Lopez (born January 22, 1949), nicknamed Mad Dog, is an American drummer. Between 1968 and 1974 Lopez backed Bruce Springsteen in several bands, including Steel Mill and the E Street Band. He also played on Springsteen's first two albums ...

– drums * Vinnie Roslin – bass, backing vocals * Bruce Springsteen – production * Bob Ludwig – mastering Track 4 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar * Vini Lopez – drums *

David Sancious David Sancious (born November 30, 1953) is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, the E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on '' Human Touch'' (1992), '' Tra ...

– piano, organ *

Garry Tallent Garry Wayne Tallent (born October 27, 1949), sometimes billed as Garry W. Tallent, is an American musician and record producer, best known for being bass player and founding member of the E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen's primary backing band si ...

– bass * Stevie Van Zandt – guitar, backing vocals * Bruce Springsteen – production * Carl "Tinker" West –

recording A record, recording or records may refer to: An item or collection of data Computing * Record (computer science), a data structure ** Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity ** Boot sector or boot record, r ...

* Bob Ludwig – mastering Track 5 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar * Bruce Springsteen,

Mike Appel Mike Appel (born October 27, 1942)Eliot and Appel, ''Down Thunder Road'', p. 45. is an American music industry manager and record producer, best known for his role in both capacities in the early career of Bruce Springsteen. Appel was born in ...

– production * Harvey J. Goldberg – recording * Bob Ludwig – mastering Track 6 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar * John Hammond – production * S. Tonkel, Phil Giambalvo – recording * Bob Ludwig – mastering Track 7 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar *

Clarence Clemons Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr. (January 11, 1942 – June 18, 2011), also known as The Big Man, was an American musician and actor. From 1972 until his death in 2011, he was the saxophonist for The E Street Band. Clemons released several s ...

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saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

* Suki Lahav – backing vocals * Vini Lopez – drums * David Sancious – piano, organ * Garry Tallent – bass * Mike Appel, Jim Cretecos – production * Luis Lahav – recording, mixing * Jack Ashkinazy – mastering Track 8 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar * Ernest "Boom" Carter – drums * Clarence Clemons – saxophone * Danny Federici – organ * David Sancious – keyboards * Garry Tallent – bass * Bruce Springsteen, Mike Appel – production * Luis Lahav – recording, mixing *

Greg Calbi Gregory Calbi (born April 3, 1949) is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound, New Jersey. Biography Greg Calbi was born on April 3, 1949, in Yonkers, New York, and raised in Bayside, Queens, New York. He graduated in 1966 from Bish ...

– mastering Track 9 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar *

Roy Bittan Roy J. Bittan (born July 2, 1949) is an American musician best known as a long-time member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Professor", Bittan joined the E Street Band in 1974. He plays the piano, organ, accordion and synth ...

– piano * Clarence Clemons – saxophone * Danny Federici – organ * Garry Tallent – bass * Stevie Van Zandt – guitar *

Max Weinberg Max Weinberg (born April 13, 1951) is an American drummer and television personality, most widely known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' a ...

– drums *

Jon Landau Jon Landau (born May 14, 1947) is an American music critic, manager, and record producer. He has worked with Bruce Springsteen in all three capacities. He is the head of the nominating committee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and recei ...

, Bruce Springsteen – production *

Jimmy Iovine James Iovine ( ; ; born March 11, 1953) is an American entrepreneur, record executive, and media proprietor best known as the co-founder of Interscope Records. In 2006, Iovine and rapper-producer Dr. Dre founded Beats Electronics, which prod ...

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Chuck Plotkin Charles Richard Plotkin (born September 8, 1942) is a recording engineer and producer, best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Recording engineer Plotkin has recorded, engineered, mastered and produced albums by Bruce Spri ...

, Jimmy Iovine – mixing * Mike Reese – mastering Track 10 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar,

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica in ...

* Roy Bittan – piano * Clarence Clemons – saxophone * Danny Federici – organ * Garry Tallent – bass * Stevie Van Zandt – guitar, backing vocals * Max Weinberg – drums * Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Stevie Van Zandt – production *

Neil Dorfsman Neil Dorfsman (born May 31, 1952) is an American sound engineer and record producer, best known for his work with Dire Straits, Bruce Hornsby, Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney and Sting. He won Grammy Awards for Best Producer for Bruce Hornsby's '' ...

– recording * Chuck Plotkin,

Toby Scott Toby Warren Scott is an American record producer, engineer and sound mixer. In addition to serving as an engineer on 18 Bruce Springsteen albums and numerous live performances, Scott has also recorded artists including Bob Dylan, Natalie Merchan ...

– mixing * Ken Perry – mastering Track 11 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar * Bruce Springsteen – production * Mike Batlan – recording * Dennis King – mastering * Bob Ludwig, Steve Marcussen – mastering consultants Track 12 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar * Roy Bittan –

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis ...

* Clarence Clemons –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

* Danny Federici – organ, piano,

glockenspiel The glockenspiel ( or , : bells and : set) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the vibraphone. The ...

* Garry Tallent – bass * Stevie Van Zandt – guitar * Max Weinberg – drums * Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, Stevie Van Zandt – production * Toby Scott – recording *

Bob Clearmountain Bob Clearmountain (born January 15, 1953) is an American recording engineer, mixer and record producer. He has worked with many major acts, including Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Toto, Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams, with whom he has a very l ...

– mixing * Bob Ludwig – mastering Track 13 * Bruce Springsteen – vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass * Roy Bittan – piano * Danny Federici – organ * Max Weinberg – percussion * Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin – production * Toby Scott – recording * Bob Clearmountain – mixing * Bob Ludwig – mastering Track 14 * Bruce Springsteen – vocals, all instruments except keyboard and drums * Roy Bittan – keyboards *

Gary Mallaber Gary Mallaber (born October 11, 1946 in Buffalo) is a Los Angeles session drummer, percussionist and singer. He attended Lafayette High School, where he and Bobby Militello, along with other musicians, were mentored by saxophonist Sam Scam ...

– drums * Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin – production * Roy Bittan – additional production * Toby Scott – recording * Bob Clearmountain – mixing * Bob Ludwig – mastering Track 15 * Bruce Springsteen – vocal, guitar, harmonica * Danny Federici – keyboard * Gary Mallaber – drums * Marty Rifkin –

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all steel guitars, it can ...

* Garry Tallent – bass * Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Plotkin – production * Toby Scott – recording, mixing *

Dave Collins David S. Collins (born October 20, 1952) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball from to . Collins is one of three players to have made it to the major leagues who played for the Rapid City Post 22 American Legion baseball program i ...

– mastering Track 16 * Bruce Springsteen – vocals, guitar * Roy Bittan – piano * Clarence Clemons – saxophone, percussion * Danny Federici – organ *

Nils Lofgren Nils Hilmer Lofgren (born June 21, 1951) is an American rock musician, recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Along with his work as a solo artist, he has been a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band since 1984, a membe ...

– guitar, backing vocals *

Patti Scialfa Vivienne Patricia Scialfa ( ; born July 29, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Scialfa has been a member of the E Street Band since 1984 and has been married to Bruce Springsteen since 1991. In 2014, Scialfa was inducted into ...

– backing vocals * Garry Tallent – bass * Stevie Van Zandt – guitar, backing vocals * Max Weinberg – drums *

Jane Scarpantoni Jane Scarpantoni (born 1960)https://www.myheritage.com/names/jane_scarpantoni is a classically trained American cello player who has played on a number of alternative rock albums. She was a member of Hoboken, New Jersey's Tiny Lights in the mid-1 ...

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cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

Soozie Tyrell Soozie Tyrell (born May 4, 1957), formerly known as Soozie Kirschner, is an American violinist, guitarist, and vocalist, most known for her work with Bruce Springsteen in the E Street Band and formerly The Sessions Band. Biography Tyrell ...

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violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

, backing vocals * Brendan O'Brien – production, mixing * Nick DiDia – recording * Bob Ludwig – mastering Track 17 * Bruce Springsteen – vocals, guitar, keyboards * Brendan O'Brien – bass * Danny Federici – keyboards *

Steve Jordan Steve, Stephen, or Steven Jordan may refer to: Music * Steve Jordan (guitarist) (1919–1993), American jazz guitarist * Steve Jordan (drummer) (born 1957), American drummer, studio musician * Steve Jordan (accordionist) (born Esteban Jordan) (1939 ...

– drums * Marty Rifkin – pedal steel guitar * Patti Scialfa – backing vocals * Soozie Tyrell – violin, backing vocals * Brendan O'Brien, Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Plotkin – production * Toby Scott, Nick DiDia – recording * Brendan O'Brien – mixing * Bob Ludwig – mastering Track 18 * Bruce Springsteen – vocals, guitar, percussion, keyboards *

Ron Aniello Ron Aniello is an American songwriter, record producer, composer and musician who has enjoyed a diverse career working with Bruce Springsteen, Matthew Koma, Shania Twain, Wanting Qu, Gavin DeGraw, Lifehouse, Patti Scialfa, Barenaked Ladies, Gu ...

– guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, loops, backing vocals * Max Weinberg – drums *

Charlie Giordano Charles Giordano (born October 13, 1954) is an American keyboardist and accordionist. Giordano is known primarily for his work with Bruce Springsteen as a member of the E Street Band, replacing Danny Federici as the band's organist following the ...

– piano,

B-3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

* Rob Lebret – guitar, backing vocals * Curt Ramm –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

* Clarence Clemons – saxophone * Soozie Tyrell – violin, backing vocals * Patti Scialfa – backing vocals * Lisa Lowell – backing vocals * Ross Petersen – backing vocals * Cliff Norrell – backing vocals * NY String Chamber Consort **

Rob Mathes Rob or ROB may refer to: Places * Rob, Velike Lašče, a settlement in Slovenia * Roberts International Airport (IATA code ROB), in Monrovia, Liberia People * Rob (given name), a given name or nickname, e.g., for Robert(o), Robin/Robyn * Rob ...

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orchestration Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", or ...

conductor Conductor or conduction may refer to: Music * Conductor (music), a person who leads a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra. * ''Conductor'' (album), an album by indie rock band The Comas * Conduction, a type of structured free improvisation ...

* Ron Aniello, Bruce Springsteen – production * Ross Petersen, Ron Aniello, Rob Lebret, Cliff Norrell, Toby Scott – recording * Bob Clearmountain – mixing * Bob Ludwig – mastering Technical * Bruce Springsteen – production * Bob Ludwig –

remastering Remaster refers to quality enhancement of sound and/or picture of a previously existing recording. Remastering may also refer to: *Software remastering Software remastering is software development that recreates system software and software appl ...

* Toby Scott – project supervisor *Michelle Holme – art director *

Frank Stefanko Frank Stefanko (born 1946) is an American fine art photographer with connections to New Jersey performers Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen. Stefanko's early photographs, taken in the 1960s through the 1980s, reveal the emerging careers of the t ...

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cover Cover or covers may refer to: Packaging * Another name for a lid * Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package * Album cover, the front of the packaging * Book cover or magazine cover ** Book design ** Back cover copy, part of cop ...

photography Photography is the visual art, art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It i ...

Joel Bernstein Joel Bernstein is a photographer, guitarist, and record producer based in Oakland, California. His photographs have appeared as the album covers to, among others, ''After the Gold Rush'', ''4 Way Street'', ''Rita Coolidge'', ''Wind on the Water ...

Danny Clinch Danny Clinch (born 1964) is an American photographer and film director. Biography Born in Toms River, New Jersey, Clinch graduated from Toms River High School East in 1982. After attending Ocean County College, he attended the New England ...

Anton Corbijn Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (; born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, film director and music video director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2,Pitman, Joanna"The silent partner"' ...

, Peter Cunningham,

David Gahr David Gahr (September 18, 1922 – May 25, 2008) was an American photographer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Russian immigrant parents. He enlisted in the US Army the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor and served in the infantry in Eu ...

, Edward Gallucci, Roz Levin, Jo Lopez, Art Maillet,

Eric Meola Eric Meola (born 1946 in Syracuse, New York) is an American photographer. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1968 and is self-taught in the art of photography. In New York he apprenticed under photographer Pete Turner, who influenced Meola's ...

, Billy Smith Collection, Bruce Springsteen Collection,

Pam Springsteen Pamela Colleen Springsteen (born ) is an American actress and photographer. She had a short acting career, and is best known for playing the role of serial killer Angela Baker in the cult slasher/comedy/horror films '' Sleepaway Camp II: Unhapp ...

, Frank Stefanko – interior photography

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