Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.

Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. is the first studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1973. It only sold about 25,000 copies in the first year of its release, but had significant critical impact. It was ranked at #379 by Rolling Stone on its list of 500 greatest albums of all time. Springsteen and his first manager Mike Appel decided to record the album at the low-priced, out-of-the-way 914 Sound Studios to save as much as possible of the Columbia Records advance and cut the record in a single week. Richard Davis, upright bass player on "The Angel", also played the bass on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. Both "Blinded by the Light" and "Spirit in the Night" were released as singles by Columbia, but neither made a dent in the US...