Columbia Records will release Bruce Springsteen’s The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story, November 16.

The collection will be released in a Deluxe Package, consisting of more than six hours of film and more than two hours of audio. The three-CD/three-DVD set (also available as a three-CD/three-Blu Ray disc set), will include an 80-page notebook containing facsimiles from Springsteen’s original notebooks from the recording sessions, which include alternate lyrics, song ideas, recording details, and personal notes in addition to a new essay by Springsteen and never-before-seen photographs.

The deluxe package includes Darkness on the Edge of Town remixed digitally for the first time. as well as The Promise: The Making of Darkness on The Edge of Town, a documentary directed by Thom Zinny which will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. Also included is more than four hours of live concert footage, including the bootleg house cut from a 1978 Springsteen show in Houston, Texas; video from the Thrill Hill Vault; and HD video of a 2009 performance at Asbury Park, New Jersey’s Paramount Theater of the Darkness album performed in order.

The set will also be available as The Promise, a two-CD or four-LP collection including lyric s and the new essay from Springsteen.

The track listing for Bruce Springsteen’s The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story follows:

CD 1: Darkness on the Edge of Town (remastered)
1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Something In The Night
4. Candy’s Room
5. Racing In The Street
6. The Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets Of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

CD 2: The Promise (Disc 1)
1. Racing In The Street (’78)
2. Gotta Get That Feeling
3. Outside Looking In
4. Someday (We’ll Be Together)
5. One Way Street
6. Because The Night
7. Wrong Side Of The Street
8. The Brokenhearted
9. Rendezvous
10. Candy’s Boy

CD 3: The Promise (Disc 2)
1. Racing In The Street (’78)
2. Gotta Get That Feeling
3. Outside Looking In
4. Someday (We’ll Be Together)
5. One Way Street
6. Because The Night
7. Wrong Side Of The Street
8. The Brokenhearted
9. Rendezvous
10. Candy’s Boy

DVD 1: The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town

DVD 2: Darkness on the Edge of Town (Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, NJ 2009)
1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Something In The Night
4. Candy’s Room
5. Racing In The Street
6. The Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets Of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

Thrill Hill Vault (1976-1978)
1. Save My Love (Holmdel, NJ 76)
2. Candy’s Boy (Holmdel, NJ 76)
3. Something In The Night (Red Bank, NJ 76)
4. Don’t Look Back (NYC 78)
5. Ain’t Good Enough For You (NYC 78)
6. The Promise (NYC 78)
7. Candy’s Room Demo (NYC 78)
8. Badlands (Phoenix 78)
9. The Promised Land (Phoenix 78)
10. Prove It All Night (Phoenix 78)
11. Born To Run (Phoenix 78)
12. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (Phoenix 78)

DVD 3: Houston ‘78 Bootleg House Cut
1. Badlands
2. Streets Of Fire
3. It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City
4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
5. Spirit In The Night
6. Independence Day
7. The Promised Land
8. Prove It All Night
9. Racing In The Street
10. Thunder Road
11. Jungleland
12. The Ties That Bind
13. Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town
14. The Fever
15. Fire
16. Candy’s Room
17. Because The Night
18. Point Blank
19. She’s The One
20. Backstreets
21. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
22. Born To Run
23. Detroit Medley
24. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
25. You Can’t Sit Down
26. Quarter To Three

The following is a complete list of GRAMMY award winners:

Record of the Year: “Use Somebody,” Kings of Leon

Album of the Year: Fearless, Taylor Swift

Song of the Year: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),” Beyonce

Best New Artist: Zac Brown Band

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: “Halo,” Beyonce

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: “Make It Mine,” Jason Mraz

Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: “I Gotta Feeling,” Black Eyed Peas

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals: “Lucky,” Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat

Best Pop Instrumental Performance: “Throw Down Your Heart,” Bela Fleck

Best Pop Instrumental Album: Potato Hole, Booker T. Jones

Best Pop Vocal Album: The E.N.D., Black Eyed Peas

Best Dance Recording: “Poker Face,” Lady Gaga

Best Electronic/Dance Album: The Fame, Lady Gaga

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden, Michael Buble

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance: “Working On A Dream,” Bruce Springsteen

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: “Use Somebody,” Kings of Leon

Best Hard Rock Performance: “War Machine,” AC/DC

Best Metal Performance: “Dissident Aggressor,” Judas Priest

Best Rock Instrumental Performance: “A Day In The Life,” Jeff Beck

Best Rock Song: “Use Somebody,” Kings of Leon

Best Rock Album: 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day

Best Alternative Music Album: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Phoenix

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), Beyonce

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: “Pretty Wings,” Maxwell

Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: “Blame It,” Jamie Foxx and T-Pain

Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: “At Last,” Beyonce

Best Urban/Alternative Performance: “Pearls,” India.Arie and Dobet Gnahore

Best R&B Song: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), Beyonce

Best R&B Album: Blacksummers’ Night, Maxwell

Best Contemporary R&B Album: I Am… Sasha Fierce, Beyonce

Best Rap Solo Performance: “D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune),” Jay-Z

Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group: “Crack A Bottle,” Eminem, Dr. Dre, and 50 Cent

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: “Run This Town,” Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye West

Best Rap Song: “Run This Town,” Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye West

Best Rap Album: Relapse, Eminem

Best Female Country Vocal Performance: “White Horse,” Taylor Swift

Best Male Country Vocal Performance: “Sweet Thing,” Keith Urban

Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals: “I Run To You,” Lady Antebellum

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: “I Told You So,” Carrie Underwood and Randy Travis

Best Country Instrumental Performance: “Producer’s Medley,” Steve Wariner

Best Country Song: “White Horse,” Liz Rose and Taylor Swift

Best Country Album: Fearless, Taylor Swift

Best New Age Album: Prayer For Compassion, David Darling

Best Contemporary Jazz Album: 75, Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate

Best Jazz Vocal Album: Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltraine And Hartman, Kurt Elling

Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “Dancin’ 4 Chicken,” Terence Blanchard

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual Or Group: Five Peace Band – Live, Chick Corea & John McLaughlin Five Peace Band

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Book One, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

Best Latin Jazz Album: Juntos Para Siempre, Bebo Valdes and Chucho Valdes

Best Gospel Performance: “Wait On The Lord,” Donnie McClurkin (featuring Karen Clark Sheard)

Best Gospel Song: “God In Me,” Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell, and Warryn Campbell

Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album: Live Revelations, Third Day

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album: The Power Of One, Israel Houghton

Best Southern/Country/Bluegrass Gospel Album: Jason Crabb, Jason Crabb

Best Traditional Gospel Album: Oh Happy Day, Various Artists

Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album: Audience Of One, Heather Headley

Best Latin Pop Album: Sin Frenos, La Quinta Estacion

Best Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album: Los De Atras Vienen Conmigo, Calle 13

Best Tropical Latin Album: Ciclos, Luis Enrique

Best Regional Mexican Album: Necesito De Ti, Vincente Fernandez

Best Tejano Album: Borders Y Bailes, Los Texmaniacs

Best Norteno Album: Tu Noche Con… Los Tigres Del Norte, Los Tigers Del Norte

Best Banda Album: Tu Esclavo Y Amo, Lupillo Rivera

Best Americana Album: Electric Dirt, Levon Helm

Best Bluegrass Album: The Crow/New Songs For The Five-String Banjo, Steve Martin

Best Traditional Blues Album: A Stranger Here, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott

Best Contemporary Blues Album: Already Free, The Derek Trucks Band

Best Traditional Folk Album: High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project, Loudon Wainwright III

Best Contemporary Folk Album: Townes, Steve Earle

Best Hawaiian Music Album: Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Volume 2, Various Artists

Best Native American Music Album: Spirit Wind North, Bill Miller

Best Zydeco Or Cajun Album: Lay Your Burden Down, Buckwheat Zydeco

Best Reggae Album: Mind Control – Acoustic, Stephen Marley

Best Traditional World Music Album: Douga Mansa, Mamadou Diabate.

Best Contemporary World Music Album: Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 – Africa Sessions, Bela Fleck

Best Musical Album For Children: Family Time, Ziggy Marley

Best Spoken World Album For Children: Aaaaah! Spooky, Scary Stories & Songs, Buck Howdy

Best Spoken World Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling): Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox

Best Comedy Album: A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All!, Stephen Colbert

Best Musical Show Album: West Side Story

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: Up

Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media: “Jai Ho,” Gulzar, A.R. Rahman, and Tanvi Shah

Best Instrumental Compilation: “Married Life,” Michael Giacchino

Best Instrumental Arrangement: “West Side Story Medley,” Bill Cunliffe, arranager

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s): “Quiet Nights,” Claus Ogerman, arranger

Best Recording Package: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, Stefan Sagemeister

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972). Gary Burden, Jenice Heo, and Neil Young

Best Album Notes: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1948), Dan Morgenstern

Best Historical Album: The Complete Chess Masters (1950-1967): Andy McKaie, Erick Labson

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: Ellipse, Imogen Heap

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical: Brendan O’Brien

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: “When Love Takes Over (Electro Extended Remix), David Guetta

Best Surround Sound Album: Transmigration, Michael Bishop, Elaine Martone

Best Engineered Album, Classical: Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10, Peter Laenger

Producer Of The Year, Classical: Steven Epstein

Best Classical Album: Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10

Best Orchestral Performance: Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloe, James Levine

Best Opera Recording: Britten: Billy Budd

Best Choral Performance: Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra): Journey To The New World, Sharon Isbin (Joan Baez and Marc O’Connor)

Best Chamber Music Performance: Intimate Letters, Emerson String Quartet

Best Small Ensemble Performance: Lang, David: The Little Match Girl Passion, Paul Hillier; Ars Nova Copenhagen and Theatre Of Voices

Best Classical Vocal Performance: Verismo Arias: Renee Fleming

Best Classical Contemporary Composition: Higdon, Jennifer: Percussion Concerto: Jennifer Higdon

Best Classical Crossover Album: Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs Of Joy And Peace, Yo-Yo Ma

Best Short Form Music Video: “Boom Boom Pow,” Black Eyed Peas

Best Long Form Music Video: “The Beatles Love – All Together Now,” Various Artists

Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Sting, and Keith Urban are among the artists who will perform on Friday night’s (January 22) Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief telethon, which will be televised, started at 8:00 p.m. EST.

The two-hour event will be televised on all of the major networks as well as on MTV, VH1, BET, CNN, CMT, PBS, Bravo, and a number of other networks. The telethon will also be streamed live online.

Haitian native Wyclef Jean will host the show from New York City; George Clooney will host from Los Angeles, California; and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper will report from Haiti.

Jay-Z will perform from London, England, where he will be joined by Bono, The Edge, and Rihanna in a joint performance. Coldplay will also perform from London.

New York’s lineup includes Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Sting, Shakira, Blige, and Jean. Swift, Urban, Kid Rock,  Dave Matthews, Timberlake, John Legend, Stevie Wonder, and Sheryl Crow will perform in Los Angeles, where Rock and Crow will sing together.

Starting Saturday (January 23), the night’s performances will be available for purchase via iTunes for 99 cents each. All proceeds will go to Haiti relief.

Pearl Jam has announced a series of European tour dates to take place in June and July 2010. The tour will kick off in Dublin, Ireland, June 22, and wrap in Oeiras, Portugal, July 10. A number of the dates have yet to be announced, though shows in London, England; Belfast, Ireland; Berlin, Germany; Arras, France; and Werchter, Belgium were announced at press time…

Slayer has announced that it will be hitting the European concert circuit this summer. The band will perform at Warsaw, Poland’s Bernowo Airport, June 16; at Knebworth Park in Knebworth, United Kingdom, August 1; and at the Sonisphere Festival (dates TBA) where they will share the stage with Metallica, Rammstein, Anthrax, The Cult, Mastodon, Iron Maiden, and others. In addition, the band will announce more European tour dates Thursday (December 10)…

Tibet House US will hold its 20th annual benefit concert at New York City’s Carnegie Hall, February 26. Philip Glass, the concert’s artistic director has assembled a lineup that includes Patti Smith, Jesse Smith, Michael Campbell, Baaba Maal, and Pierce Turner. Additional artists will be announced in the coming weeks and tickets will go on sale December 24…

Bruce Springsteen posted a statement on his official Web site in support of the pending vote in the New Jersey statehouse to legalize gay marriage in the Garden State. Springsteen wrote: “Like many of you who live in New Jersey, I’ve been following the progress of the marriage-equality legislation currently being considered in Trenton. I’ve long believed in and have always spoken out for the rights of same sex couples and fully agree with Governor Corzine when he writes that, “The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is — a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.” I couldn’t agree more with that statement and urge those who support equal treatment for our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters to let their voices be heard now.”  In other Springsteen news, it was reported that the death of his cousin and tour manager, Lenny Sullivan, in October was due to a drug overdose…

Beyonce received 10 Grammy Awards nominations Wednesday night (December 2), leading a pack of artists, including Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, and the Black Eyed Peas.

Beyonce’s nominations included album of the year (I Am… Sasha Fierce), song of the year (”Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It”), and record of the year (”Halo”).

Swift took home eight nominations, including album of the year for Fearless, as well as song and record of the year for “You Belong With Me.”

Lady Gaga received five nominations, including album of the year for The Fame, and song and record of the year for “Poker Face.”

Maxwell and Kanye West each received six nominations and Jay-Z and David Guetta garnered five nominations.

The awards will be presented January 31, 2010, in Los Angeles, California.

Click here for the full list of Grammy Awards nominees.

U2 will headline the Glastonbury festival in 2010, marking the first time that the group has played the festival. 2010 will mark the 40th anniversary of the legendary festival. Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young headlined the 2009 edition of the fest. Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis noted that U2 will headline Friday night and that he is still working on “three or four superstars” to appear during the fest. Among the rumored bands are Muse, the Rolling Stones, Coldplay, David Bowie, and Led Zeppelin…

In conjunction with the recent release of his Christmas In The Heart album, Bob Dylan sat down for an interview with journalist Bill Flanagan. The interview, which is the only one Dylan is doing in conjunction with the release of the album, will be syndicated worldwide through the International Network of Street Papers…

Maxwell will headline a special benefit performance at Club Nokia L.A. Live in Los Angeles, California, December 2. The concert will follow the live televised event The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! All proceeds from Maxwell’s concert will benefit the GRAMMY Museum…

Paul van Dyk will perform a four-hour set on New Year’s Eve at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom. Tickets range in price from $75 to $775…

Bruce Springsteen and Dave Brubeck are among the artists who will be honored December 6, at the 32nd Kennedy Center Honors Gala, held in Washington, D.C.

Brubeck and Springsteen’s respective careers will be celebrated, along with the careers of Robert De Niro, Mel Brooks, and opera singer Grace Bumbry.

The gala will be recorded for broadcast and will be shown December 29, at 9:00 p.m. on CBS.

Brubeck said about the honor that it would have delighted his late mother, Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck.

“Both my older brothers were such terrific musicians – classical musicians. And she wanted three sons that would follow in her footsteps …, and I let her down,” Brubeck said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “She finally came around to what I was doing. She lived long enough to see good results, and she enjoyed going to the concerts.”

Rapper DMX received a 90-day jail sentence Friday (January 30) in connection with convictions on theft, animal-cruelty, and drug-possession charges. He was also placed on at least 18 months probation. The rapper pleaded guilty December 30 to three felony counts on the theft and drug charges and one misdemeanor count of animal cruelty…

Alanis Morissette, Raphael Saadiq, and KT Tunstall are among the artists who will appear on Live From the Artist’s Den on public television stations. The show places musicians in unusual venues. One episode will feature The Hold Steady performing in a former bank building in New York City…

Bruce Springsteen called his deal with Wal-Mart to sell exclusively a new greatest hits collection through the retailer a mistake. During an interview with The New York Times, Springsteen admitted that he had not vetted the deal closely enough and said that he “dropped the ball on it.”

Bruce Springsteen
Working on a Dream
71

The first decade of the new millennium has proven to be the most prolific in the career of Bruce Springsteen. The same artist who once waited seven years between releases has given his fans five albums of new material and three official live releases since 2001. Many will point to the influence of producer Brendan O’Brien, who has worked with Springsteen during this decade, and whose guidance has turned Springsteen from an artist for whom several years between albums was expected to one who is churning out discs nearly as quickly as his fans can digest them.

Unfortunately, for a perfectionist like Springsteen, quality suffers when the goal appears to be quantity, and on most of his non-live releases this decade – the sole exception being the sublime Seeger Sessions disc – have proven to be extraordinarily ordinary; hit-or-miss affairs that will include a track or two that can be added to the pantheon of classic Springsteen tracks, while also including a number of tracks that are either too banal, too overwrought, or just too boring.

Working on a Dream, Springsteen’s 16th studio release, suffers from many of the same problems that have plagued discs like Magic, Devils & Dust, and The Rising, and brings to mind a line from “The River”: “Is a dream a lie that don’t come true, or is it something worse?”

Springsteen’s best tracks have always been those on which the narrator’s focus is razor-sharp, even if the choruses are more accessible (think “Jungleland,” “Rosalita,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” and even “Born In the U.S.A.”) Platitudes have never served Springsteen well, and his career-long pattern of avoiding the simple sentiments is what has made him into the music legend he is.

The new disc contains one bona-fide classic (“The Wrestler”; technically a bonus track); several good songs which are bound to stay in the regular rotation for Springsteen fans (“My Lucky Day,” “Working on a Dream,” and “Outlaw Pete,” the latter of which borders on classic status but is retarded by the guitar riff from Kiss’ “I Was Made for Lovin’ You”); a handful of interesting tracks with the potential to grow upon repeated spins (“Queen of the Supermarket,” “This Life,” “What Love Can Do,” and “Kingdom of Days”); the obligatory tribute to the late Danny Federici (“The Last Carnival”; a 30-years-burning-down-the-road companion to “Wild Billy’s Circus Story”); and several clunkers (“Good Eye,” the trite “Tomorrow Never Knows,” and “Surprise Surprise”).

Working on a Dream, the often-upbeat counter to the weightier albums he released earlier in the decade is not a failure – far from it. Most of the tracks about which the listener might have wondered on first blush bloom with repeated spins, and it’s clear that once the tracks are debuted in the live arena, some of them might even become favorites. At the same time, it’s not the ever-elusive conclusion to the mythological “Born” trilogy for which many Springsteen fans have held out, even if only in a dimly-lit corner of their minds. It’s more like the ’69 Chevy with a blown tire that still sounds throaty and inspiring, even if it’s not moving as quickly or as spectacularly as it once did.

CBS and John Mayer are in the process of developing a music and variety show for the pop star. According to CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler, the project is currently under development with an agreement expected to be announced presently. Mayer has appeared on the network before, during a cameo appearance in 2006 on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Mayer is also expected to perform at the Grammy Awards, which will take place in February, and which will be televised by CBS…

From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen will open at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, Ohio, April 1. Springsteen was inducted into the Rock Hall in 1999. In related news, National Public radio will broadcast exclusively the singer’s new album, Working on a Dream, starting Monday (January 19), at 11:59 p.m. EST, a week before the disc hits store shelves. Fans will be able to listen to the disc on demand until its release. Springsteen will also guest deejay a special on E Street Radio, the commercial-free satellite radio station available on SIRIUS channel 10 and XM channel 58. The first edition of the special will premiere Monday at 4:00 p.m. EST, and rebroadcast throughout the week. The second edition of the special will premiere Monday, January 26, at 4:00 p.m. EST, and rebroadcast throughout that week. Springsteen is expected to play music hand-selected from his personal collection, will share how he discovered each song and explain what he likes about the music…