As Springsteen fans know all too well, just because they record a show doesn’t mean it’s going to be released: Bruce’s Boston stop on the Devils & Dust tour, captured on film but stuck in the vault indefinitely, is a recent case in point. So when we found out last year that the Dublin stand on the Seeger Sessions tour would be filmed, I wasn’t counting any chickens. Now, however, there is official word that a show’s worth of material from those November 2006 concerts will be coming home, on DVD (including availability on the hi-def Blu-ray format) as well as in a separate two-CD set.
Live in Dublin, from “Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band” (note the “Seeger” has been dropped) is just two months away, scheduled for June 5 from Columbia. The two-CD set and DVD each feature 23 songs from The Point in Dublin, captured on November 17, 18, and 19:
1. Atlantic City
2. Old Dan Tucker
3. Eyes on the Prize
4. Jesse James
5. Further on Up the Road
6. O Mary Don’t You Weep
7. Erie Canal
8. If I Should Fall Behind
9. My Oklahoma Home
10. Highway Patrolman
11. Mrs. McGrath
12. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
13. Jacob’s Ladder
14. Long Time Comin’
15. Open All Night
16. Pay Me My Money Down
17. Growin’ Up
18. When the Saints Go Marching In
19. This Little Light of Mine
20. American Land
21. Blinded By the LightBonus Songs:
22. Love of the Common People
23. We Shall Overcome
And a familiar team at the helm: The DVD was edited by Emmy- and Grammy-winner Thom Zimny, with audio mixed by Bob Clearmountain (including 5.1 surround) and mastered by Bob Ludwig.
It should be an interesting and yet worth remembering look at Springsteen and his Seeger session phase.
I will look forward to it.
-Kyle (via Greasy Lake)