Credits

Discography
Sounds like Bruce Springsteen

1977 CJ - The first album. Ambitious, zealous and an unpolished gem. The first signs of a legend in the making.

1. Blinded by the Light
2. Growin' Up
3. Mary Queen of Arkansas
4. Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
5. Lost in the Flood
6. The Angel
7. For You
8. Spirit in the Night
9. It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City

1978 Run- Debuted at #97, but slowly over the next year the sales picked up, due to CJ's high energy, intimately focused, three hour plus live shows. It would go onto the Top Ten and stay there for six months.


1. Thunder Road
2. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
3. Night
4. Backstreets
5. Born to Run
6. She's the One
7. Meeting Across the River
8. Jungleland


1981 Home- A double album that was dark in tone from his debut album. Many of the songs autobigraphical in nature about his relationship with his father, growing up with a painfully shy stutter and not fitting in a protastant neighborhood and school as a catholic. Some consider this to be his finest work.


Disc 1
1. The Ties That Bind
2. Sherry Darling
3. Jackson Cage
4. Two Hearts
5. Independence Day
6. Hungry Heart
7. Out in the Street
8. Crush on You
9. You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
10. I Wanna Marry You
11. The River

Disc 2
1. Point Blank
2. Cadillac Ranch
3. I'm a Rocker
4. Fade Away
5. Stolen Car
6. Ramrod
7. The Price You Pay
8. Drive All Night
9. Wreck on the Highway


1984 Heartland- CJ's first #1 album, debuting and staying there for 14 nonconsecutive weeks. Six top ten singles and one of the most successful albums of the decade, selling over 15 million copies.


1. Born in the U.S.A.
2. Cover Me
5. Darlington County
4. Working on the Highway
6. Downbound Train
7. I'm on Fire
8. No Surrender
9. Bobby Jean
10. I'm Goin' Down
11. Glory Days
12. Dancing in the Dark
13. My Hometown


1986 Mass- Another depature, going full acoustic with a harmonica and guitar. The album sold poorly but was a tremendous success with the critics.

1. Nebraska
2. Atlantic City
3. Mansion on the Hill
4. Johnny 99
5. Highway Patrolman
6. State Trooper
7. Used Cars
8. Open All Night
9. My Father's House
10. Reason to Believe


1990 Stories- CJ rebounded commercially with a return to the blue-collar anthems that made him famous. Peaked at #3 and sold well, following up with a successful world tour, with songs displaying his doubts on his marriage as well as his love for his wife, Julianna.

1. Ain't Got You
2. Tougher Than the Rest
3. All That Heaven Will Allow
4. Spare Parts
5. Cautious Man
6. Walk Like a Man
7. Tunnel of Love
8. Two Faces
9. Brilliant Disguise
10. One Step Up
11. When You're Alone
12. Valentine's Day


1994 Lucky- An album hailed by Rolling Stone as "a masterpiece." Debuted at #1.

1. Better Days
2. Lucky Town
3. Local Hero
4. If I Should Fall Behind
5. Leap of Faith
6. The Big Muddy
7. Living Proof
8. Book of Dreams
9. Souls of the Departed
10. My Beautiful Reward


1997 Warmth- The first album released after his wife's diagnosis of ovarian cancer. The tone of the tour to follow reflected that as much of his trademark energy became more humbled and intimate.

1. Human Touch
2. Soul Driver
3. 57 Channels (And Nothin' On)
4. Cross My Heart
5. Gloria's Eyes
6. With Every Wish
7. Roll of the Dice
8. Real World
9. All or Nothin' at All
10. Man's Job
11. I Wish I Were Blind
12. The Long Goodbye
13. Real Man
14. Pony Boy


1998 Hits- Included 4 new tracks previously unreleased.


2000 Live- Over 40 tracks chronicling his career from his first tour, plus two previously unreleased live tracks. One played at his wife's funeral.


2002 Ruins- His first album of new material in over five years. It was released as Cranston's reflections on the 9/11 attacks and hailed as a triumphant return of The Boss. His first #1 album since "Lucky," following with his most successful tour to date.

1. Lonesome Day
2. Into the Fire
3. Waitin' on a Sunny Day
4. Nothing Man
5. Countin' on a Miracle
6. Empty Sky
7. Worlds Apart
8. Let's Be Friends (Skin to Skin)
9. Further On (Up the Road)
10. The Fuse
11. Mary's Place
12. You're Missing
13. The Rising
14. Paradise
15. My City of Ruins

2005 Diablo- Another folk album and another departure for Cranston in the same veing as "Mass." However, this release was accepted by fans of his work. Deeply personal songs and a similarly tour followed. Many dates were played in smaller clubs with just CJ and his guitar.


1. Devils & Dust
2. All the Way Home
3. Reno
4. Long Time Comin'
5. Black Cowboys
6. Maria's Bed
7. Silver Palomino
8. Jesus Was an Only Son
9. Leah
10. The Hitter
11. All I'm Thinkin' About
12. Matamoros Banks


2008 Boss- CJ's tenth studio album. Set to be released sometime in fall of 2009.



Bibliography
Writes like Dennis Lehane

Mystic River (2000) Childhood friends Jimmy Marcus, Sean Devine, and Dave Boyle reunite after the murder of Jimmy's 19-year old daughter, Katie. Katie's body was found in a state park in Boston, and Jimmy's friend Sean, a state police detective, has been assigned to the case. During the investigation, Sean discovers evidences that points to their old friend Dave as the number one suspect. On the night of the murder, Dave came home with bloodied hands and a knife wound to the stomach. The Savage brothers, neighborhood thugs and friends of Jimmy, begin their own search for the killer, so they can let Jimmy get his revenge, while Detective Sean Devine works to solve the case and handle Jimmy's rage.

Shutter Island (2004) It is 1954. Shutter Island, home to Ashcliffe psychiatric hospital. U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando, who had committed multiple murders. The marshals search the island for the patient as a hurricane bears down on them, and they find that the hospital has practiced sinister measures during its existence. But not everything is as simple as it appears to be. Twists, turns and a surprise ending that purposely challenges the reader's idea of the truth.

Coronado: Stories (Late 2009) A small town is a hard place to keep a secret. "Running Out of Dog," two Vietnam vets return to their hometown of Eden, S.C., and become tragically entangled with the wife of a man whose rich family kept him out of the war. Class resentment similarly erupts in "Gone Down to Corpus," set in back-water Texas, 1970, as a group of high school football players breaks into the house of rich kid Lyle, who fumbled the big pass at the last game. They drunkenly wreck the house and are shocked by the appearance of Lyle's younger sister, Lurlene, who is eager to join the party. The collection's centerpiece is "Until Gwen," which has also been adapted by Cranston into a two-act play, Coronado. Transcribed, the play revolves around the edgy reunion of a hustler father and his son, Bobby, newly released after four years in prison. It quickly becomes apparent that Bobby's father has retrieved him only to find out where the heist loot is hidden, and Bobby, in turn, needs to know what happened to his girlfriend, Gwen.



Filmography

The Fisher King (1991)- Disabled Veteran (Not Credited)
Domino(2005)- Wanderer
High Fidelity (2007)- Himself