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The Boss calls 1978’s Darkness on the Edge of Town his “samurai” album. But given the fact that, in the end, only ten songs were used from the grueling two years worth of studio sessions that yielded over 70 tracks, it might have been more appropriate for Bruce Springsteen to call it his “butcher” album all the same. However, as a belated commemoration of its 30th anniversary, The Promise is a long-awaited two-disc collection that gathers together 21 of those discarded cuts"most of which were deemed too romantic for Darkness, a lyrically brutal album defined by its stark, antithetical viewpoint...

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