Gary Bonds - On The Line (Lp) (1982) - €10,00

On the Line is an album released by Gary U.S. Bonds in 1982, the second of two on which he collaborated with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, the first being Dedication, released the previous year, 1981.

On the Line, Gary U.S. Bonds' second comeback album under the sponsorship of Bruce Springsteen, was even more of a Springsteen record than its predecessor. 

This time, Springsteen wrote seven of the 11 songs, co-produced all of them with Miami Steve (Van Zandt) and again lent the E Street Band for the sessions. 

While there were no Springsteen masterpieces here, the rock & roll revival style of the material, similar to that on Dedication, made it, in effect, the follow-up to Springsteen's The River album, albeit with a different vocalist. 

And that vocalist was, if anything, more expressive than the author -- on a song like "Out of Work," one of Springsteen's blue-collar anthems, Bonds sang with the conviction of a journeyman who knows what work is and what it's like not to have it. 

The musicians accompanying Bonds on the album include many members of the E Street Band.^[2] The album includes seven songs written by Springsteen, one written by Steven Van Zandt, and two written by Bonds himself ("Turn the Music Down", "Bring Her Back"), and features a duet with Steven Van Zandt on the track "Angelyne". The album produced one single, "Out of Work" which peaked at #21 on the Billboard Pop Singles charts.

According to the liner notes on the Razor & Tie reissue, after recording the album, Columbia Records had Bruce Springsteen remove his vocals from the tracks, specifically from the track "Angelyne", so Van Zandt stepped up to record the duet instead. Because of this, although Springsteen can still be heard on several of the tracks, he is not credited in the original liner notes. 

Additionally, the liner notes state that three other songs were recorded for the album but not present on the final release including Springsteen's "Action In the Street", "Lion's Den", and "Savin' Up". 

Springsteen's version of "Lion's Den" was eventually released in 1998 on his boxset Tracks and "Savin' Up" appeared on Clarence Clemons' first solo album Rescue (1983); "Action in the Street" remains unreleased. Springsteen's version of "Rendezvous" was finally released in 2010 on The Promise.

Side A

A1.  Hold On (To What You Got) - 3:05

A2.  Out Of Work - 2:56

A3.  Club Soul City - 3:38

A4.  Soul Deep - 3:18

A5.  Love's On The Line - 3:41

A6.  Turn The Music Down - 3:37

Side B

B1.  Rendez-Vous - 3:38

B2.  Angelyne - 4:08

B3.  All I Need - 5:08

B4.  Bring Her Back - 3:44

B5. Last Time - 4:36

Musicians

• Gary U.S. Bonds – lead vocals
• Bruce Springsteen – background vocals (uncredited)
• Steven Van Zandt – guitar (solo "Last Time"), background vocals (solo "Angelyne")
• Roy Bittan – keyboards
• Clarence Clemons – saxophone (solo "Angelyne" & "Out of Work"), background vocals
• Danny Federici – keyboards (solo "Club Soul City"), accordion
• Max Weinberg – drums
• Garry Tallent – bass

Additional musicians

• Chuck Jackson – background vocals ("Club Soul City")
• J.T. Bowen – background vocals ("Out of Work")
• Rusty Cloud – keyboards (solo "Bring Her Back"), background vocals
• Bill Derby – guitar (solo "Turn the Music Down"), background vocals
• Joe Martin – guitar, background vocals
• Mike Micara – drums
• George Ruiz – bass, background vocals
• Joey Stann – saxophone (solo "Bring Her Back" & "Love's On the Line"), background vocals

Technical

• Bruce Springsteen – producer
• Steven Van Zandt – producer
• Neil Dorfsman – engineer, mixing on "Club Soul City" and "Last Time"
• Gary Rindfuss – assistant engineer
• Josh Abbey – assistant engineer
• Toby Scott – mixing
• Dana Brisbee – assistant mixing

Notes

Release:  1982

Format:  LP

Genre:  Pop, Rock

Label:  EMI America

Catalog#  1A 064-400099

Vinyl:  Goed

Cover:  Goed

Prijs: €10,00