Home demo version 1
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The above lyrics are for a solo acoustic demo of JANEY NEEDS A SHOOTER recorded at Springsteen's home in Holmdel, NJ, sometime between January and June 1979. This is just a practice take with Springsteen singing harmonies and strumming his guitar.
Springsteen recorded many demos at his home around the time The River was being cut in studio. These home demos were not professionally recorded; it seems that Springsteen used a regular cassette recorder. They were just song fragments, and there is much stopping and starting heard as Springsteen records bits and pieces, manually stops the recorder, and then returns sometime later to add more ideas.
This home demo recording of JANEY NEEDS A SHOOTER can be found on The Lost Masters Vol. 8 (Labour Of Love) [track 14] bootleg.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
List of available versions of JANEY NEEDS A SHOOTER on this website:
JANEY NEEDS A SHOOTER [Album version]