If, like me, your local library gives you 5 free MP3 downloads a week through Freegal, you may be pleased to see that the Brucie Book companion compilation is available from today and the 5 previously unreleased tracks match the weekly entitlement exactly. Result! If only they did audiobooks as well….
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Before your post it never occurred to be that I could download like that from my library. Turns out I can. I’m not much of a Bruce fan, but I’m sure I can find some other use. Thanks for the heads up!
Bobbins! No I can’t. Turned out the page I saw referred to Essex California.
Is moving a possibility?
Seems like a lot of effort for 5 tracks a week. I saw another page which said I could get a Suffolk library card because I’m in a neighbouring county, which seems like a lot less bother than uprooting my whole life to California.
So I just listened to them. Free would be the best way to listen to them. Two from The Castiles, one from Steel Mill. The fourth one sounds like the germ of the idea that became Outlaw Pete! – and finally Henry Boy – which sounds a lot like an outtake from the Greetings album.
I know these songs have “historical significance” but all very forgettable. Sometimes its better to think that an artist appears as if from nowhere and smacks the world in the face with Blinded By The Light (one of the best first tracks/first albums ever) – perhaps the digging for out takes and demos and previous bands just tarnishes the myth.
Perhaps I am just an old curmudgeon.
These are clearly ‘fans only’ tracks and the sort of fan that would be interested in hearing them would already have all the other tracks on the compilation, some of them, several times. In fact, I would imagine that most of the potential buyers of the book will have them all. Not dishing these out free to anyone that’s interested seems a bit cheapskate.
I heard one of the Castiles tracks at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame exhibition in Cleveland. To be honest it was a pile of poop. This compilation is very poor, don’t know why he just didn’t stick to the book. He must have far better stuff in his vault – enough for a Tracks 2 at least and he releases this.
Shabby if you ask me and I’m a big Bruce fan.