what was the album the river originally called
The River (Bruce Springsteen album) Originally, Springsteen intended The River to be a single set entitled The Ties That Bind and released in late 1979 with 10 tracks.[4] Springsteen added darker material after he'd written the title track. Indeed, The River became noted for its mix of the frivolous next to the solemn. This was intentional, and in contrast to Darkness, for as Springsteen said during an interview, "Rock and roll has always been this joy, this certain happiness that is in its way the most beautiful thing in life. But rock is also about hardness and coldness and being alone ... I finally got to the place where I realized life had paradoxes, a lot of them, and you've got to live with them."[5]