First and Only Springsteen's Full Performance of The River Album

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played The River in its wholeness for the first time ever on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden. Full album performances aren't new to the Boss and his band in their current look-like-a-farewell-tour. They have played The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, Born to Run a couple of times, Darkness on the Edge of Town and Born in the USA, but The River, Springsteen's 1980 20 song-83 minute-double album, didn't seem to fit in this full album performances thing. Actually the Boss said just right before starting The River segment: 'Just this one time! Too long to do it again!'. So lucky all of us that where at MSG on Sunday night. We will never forget it.

Set List, November 8, 2009, New York, Madison Square Garden