Bruce Springsteen - Child Bride (Nebraska Outtakes, 1982)

Bruce Springsteen - Child Bride (Nebraska Outtakes, 1982)
The only recording known is from a Portastudio session at Colts Neck on January 3, 1982. It is often incorrectly noted as being an alternate title for "Working on the Highway" - they are, in fact, separate songs that bear no common melody. In his notes to Jon Landau, Springsteen wrote "in which the protagonist violates the Mann Act and is left to ponder his fate. This is a work in progress, or more like a work without progress. I worked a real long time on this song and could never quite get it right. I spent so much time on it I thought I'd include it to see what you think." As such, Bruce would later set it to an up-beat backing, dispose of the entire original ending and re-invent the song as "Working on the Highway", although there is audio evidence (a band rehearsal of "Working on the Highway" that pre-dates the recording of "Child Bride") that indicate he was working on both songs simultaneously.

[@craigduran6436]

Few can put you inside a song like Bruce.Its like a dream where you are another person.

[@karenpearson2215]

That’s a really excellent way to describe it

[@antonelladamore9096]

It was in 1997, I was attending my courses at the University of Exeter, UK, with an Erasmus scholarship when I came across this series of bootlegs, The Lost Masters, a collection of CDs with demos of Bruce's songs from the '80s. I used to meet every week with a guy from Cheltenham who brought me a couple of these CDs each time and I spent a considerable part of my scholarship buying them all. Anyway, they were very worth the money. I still have them, but to listen to this song here and now it's an incredible emotion.
Thank you Bruce, thanks to that guy from Cheltenham whose name I can't remember, he opened up my mind to a new and mysterious world of lost masterpieces.

[@edwardbachmann9904]

These unreleased out-takes are brilliant and really good sounding.

[@petejohnston5375]

It's great to be alive isn't it...
My road journey in life has has been a mixed bag of trials and tribulations like most humans in this world.
Yet, life is still grand even with it ups and downs.... I raise my glass to all of you, my fellow human beings who have a good soul.

[@cols911]

Bruce at his best...

[@badlandso73]

Beautiful

[@massimobattaglioli6651]

This is an early version of Working on the Highway

[@AFRAKER1]

And the music became Highway Patrolman.

[@gabrielle5425]

@@AFRAKER1 I heard that Losin Kind is the one who turned into Highway Patrolman

[@danlaflamme9372]

Holly shit!! Close to my life!!! Heart felt...ty

[@marinalima4774]

Você é simplesmente maravilhoso meu querido ídolo, forever ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@joykennedyhughes6269]

❤️❤️👏👏 Profound! 👍👍

[@JohnLasValleys]

Waoooo beautiful. A real gem!!!!❤❤❤

[@topothemorning4887]

❤

[@Alanpoeme]

Hi. Where is the road and landscapes ?

[@SongsbyBruce]

Nebraska

[@daniellefrack8756]

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