The River is the fifth studio album by . It was released on October 17, 1980, by . Springsteen's only , The River was produced by , Springsteen, and bandmate . The album was Springsteen's first to go #1 on the Billboard 200and spent four weeks at the top of chart. "The River" was nominated for  at the .

The sources of The River go back into earlier parts of Springsteen's recording career. "", "", "", "", and "Sherry Darling" were leftovers from his previous album, , and had been featured on the , as had parts of "Drive All Night" as a long interpolation within "Backstreets." "" had premiered at the September 1979  concerts, gaining a featured spot in the subsequent documentary .

Originally, Springsteen intended The River to be a single set entitled The Ties That Bind and released in late 1979 with 10 tracks. 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."

On November 8, 2009, at a concert, Bruce Springsteen spoke about the album, saying: "The River was a record that was sort of the gateway to a lot of my future writing. It was a record we made after Darkness on the Edge of Town. It was a record made during —hard times in the States. Its title song is a song I wrote for my brother-in-law and sister. My brother-in-law was in the construction industry, lost his job and had to struggle very hard back in the late 70s, like so many people are doing today. It was a record where I first started to tackle men and women and families and marriage. There were certain songs on it that led to complete records later on: '' sort of went to the writing on , '' went to the writing on . Originally it was a single record. I handed it in with just one record and I took it back because I didn't feel it was big enough. I wanted to capture the themes I had been writing about on Darkness. I wanted to keep those characters with me and at the same time added music that made our live shows so much fun and joy for our audience. So in the end, we're gonna take you down to The River tonight."

Side oneNo.TitleLength1.""3:342."Sherry Darling"4:033."Jackson Cage"3:044."Two Hearts"2:455.""4:50Side twoNo.TitleLength1.""3:192.""4:173."Crush on You"3:104."You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)"2:375."I Wanna Marry You"3:306.""5:01Side threeNo.TitleLength1.""6:062.""3:033."I'm a Rocker"3:364.""4:465.""3:54Side fourNo.TitleLength1.""4:052."The Price You Pay"5:293."Drive All Night"8:334.""3:54
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