Bruce SpringsteenThe Promise

Warm, glistening, Spector-style wall-of-sound rock that Springsteen kept off Darkness on the Edge of Town to keep that album lean and severe. These 21 songs from the 1977-78 sessions are the lush companion fans always suspected existed: ringing pianos, soaring Clemons sax, a voice young and yearning instead of weathered. "Because the Night," co-written with Patti Smith, finally surges in his own anthemic take after he gave the hit away. The missing chapter. Drop the needle.