'Tracks ll: The Lost Albums' - Bruce Springsteen to release seven albums of unreleased songs
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The announcement of a new Bruce Springsteen album is always something to be celebrated. Well, imagine being a fan of The Boss today, when not one but seven new studio albums are on the way...
Springsteen will release seven new studio albums, titled 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums', on 27 June, containing material written and re-recorded between 1983 and 2018.
The 83-song collection is mostly previously unreleased tracks, 74 of them never-before-heard songs, in a box set that includes a 100-page hardcover book. It will be available in configurations including a 7-CD set and a 9-LP vinyl collection.
Scroll down for the full tracklist of Tracks II – comprised of 'LA Garage Sessions '83', 'Streets of Philadelphia Sessions', 'Faithless', 'Somewhere North of Nashville', 'Inyo', 'Twilight Hours' and 'Perfect World'.
In a short video clip posted to Instagram, Springsteen explains that during the COVID-19 pandemic, he began completing 'everything I had in my vault.'
'The Lost Albums are records that were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released.'
Springsteen teased the records earlier this week with a short video which featured the text: 'What was lost has been found.' The caption urged his followers to head to
www.lostalbums.net.
A teaser track, 'Rain in the River', came out concurrently with the announcement. Check it out:
'Tracks ll' follows his first 'Tracks' volume, which was released in 1998 and consisted in a 4-CD, 66-song collection of unreleased material.
Springsteen's last studio album, 'Only The Strong Survive' - a collection of covers including classics from the Four Tops, Temptations, Supremes, Jimmy Ruffin and others - was released in 2022.
'I wanted to make an album where I just sang,' Springsteen said in a statement at the time. 'And what better music to work with than the great American songbook of the Sixties and Seventies?"
Here's the full track list for 'Tracks II':
LA Garage Sessions '83
Follow That Dream
Don't Back Down On Our Love
Little Girl Like You
Johnny Bye Bye
Sugarland
Seven Tears
Fugitive's Dream
Black Mountain Ballad
Jim Deer
County Fair
My Hometown
One Love
Don't Back Down
Richfield Whistle
The Klansman
Unsatisfied Heart
Shut Out The Light
Fugitive's Dream (Ballad)
Streets of Philadelphia Sessions
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Blind Spot
Maybe I Don't Know You
Something In The Well
Waiting On The End Of The World
The Little Things
We Fell Down
One Beautiful Morning
Between Heaven and Earth
Secret Garden
The Farewell Party
Faithless
The Desert (Instrumental)
Where You Goin', Where You From
Faithless
All God's Children
A Prayer By The River (Instrumental)
God Sent You
Goin' To California
The Western Sea (Instrumental)
My Master's Hand
Let Me Ride
My Master's Hand (Theme)
Somewhere North of Nashville
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Repo Man
Tiger Rose
Poor Side of Town
Delivery Man
Under A Big Sky
Detail Man
Silver Mountain
Janey Don't You Lose Heart
You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
Stand On It
Blue Highway
Somewhere North of Nashville
Inyo
Inyo
Indian Town
Adelita
The Aztec Dance
The Lost Charro
Our Lady of Monroe
El Jardinero (Upon the Death of Ramona)
One False Move
Ciudad Juarez
When I Build My Beautiful House
Twilight Hours
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Sunday Love
Late in the Evening
Two of Us
Lonely Town
September Kisses
Twilight Hours
I'll Stand By You
High Sierra
Sunliner
Another You
Dinner at Eight
Follow The Sun
Perfect World
I'm Not Sleeping
Idiot's Delight
Another Thin Line
The Great Depression
Blind Man
Rain In The River
If I Could Only Be Your Lover
Cutting Knife
You Lifted Me Up
Perfect World
Next month, Springsteen and the E Street band will embark on a tour of Europe and the UK, beginning 17 May in Manchester, England, and concluding on 3 July in Milan, Italy.
On Record Store Day 2025 (12 April), Springsteen and the Killers will release the 'Encore at the Garden' EP, documenting The Boss' surprise appearance with the Vegas indie band at Madison Square Garden in 2022.
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'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' will be released on 27 June.
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