Bruce Springsteen Releases ‘St. Paul 2012’ Live Archival Recording
By Nate Todd Jan 8, 2021 • 4:00 pm PST
Bruce Springsteen released a new live archival recording, St. Paul 2012. The recording is taken from Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band’s November 12, 2012 performance at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The concert came as part of Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball Tour supporting his 2012 album of the same name. The show kicks off with The Boss calling an audible and the band launching into “I’m A Rocker,” as per a Bruce Springsteen Facebook post. The set also contains rare performances of “Night,” “Loose Ends,” “Something In The Night,” “Stolen Car” and “The E Street Shuffle.”
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The St. Paul 2021 concert also fell on Veterans Day and Springsteen and the newly expanded E Street Band — keyboardist Roy Bittan, guitarist Nils Lofgren, bassist Garry Tallent, guitarist Stevie Van Zandt, drummer Max Weinberg, saxophonist and percussionist Jake Clemons, keyboardist Charlie Giordano, violinist Soozie Tyrell, percussionist Everett Bradley, backing vocalists Curtis King, Cindy Mizelle and Michelle Moore, trumpeters Barry Danielian and Curt Ramm, trombonist Clark Gayton and saxophonist Eddie Manion — unveiled a full band arrangement of “Devils & Dust,’ the title track to a 2005 Springsteen solo LP.
Preview St. Paul 2012 with “Devils & Dust” below:
