Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. Canada. They also later covered "Spirit(s) in the Night" and "For You" as well. In 2003, the album was ranked at #379 in "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and in 2013 "Rolling Stone" named "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." as one of the "100 Greatest Debut Albums of All-Time". The album also reached #60 on the "Billboard" 200 album chart. Springsteen and his first manager Mike Appel recorded 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 most of the songs in a single
Greetings from Cairo, Illinois Greetings from Cairo, Illinois Greetings From Cairo, Illinois is a 2005 concept album and historical album by Stace England with songs referencing the history of Cairo, Illinois from 1858 to 2005. The project encompassed five years of research and two years of writing and recording the music. The songs concern people, places and things throughout Cairo's history including Ulysses S. Grant, the American Civil War, blues music, lynching, the Great Migration (African American), Civil Rights struggles, vigilante groups, Jesse Jackson, political corruption, economic decline and hope for renewal. The album was the subject of a radio documentary on VPRO Dutch