Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle

Musically, the heartfelt 1973 record is inhabited by sympathetic vignettes and cinematic arrangements steeped in rock 'n' roll, soul, jazz, and R&B. It finds the New Jersey native looking beyond the parameters of his preceding record and seeking to move on from environments he knows well (and chronicles here) by rushing headlong toward unknown territories, adventures, and people. Underpinned by the singer-guitarist's ambitious poetic enterprise and will to succeed, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is the album on which Springsteen becomes the Boss. Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's renowned mastering system and housed in mini-LP-style gatefold packaging, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition hybrid SACD presents Springsteen's sophomore record in audiophile sound. It plays with a clarity, energy, and openness that complement the expressiveness, dynamics, and scope of the seven restless songs. Everything from the separation between the instruments to the natural decay