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NZ Herald
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Lost Boss: Unearthing Bruce Springsteen's hidden gems
The new collection of dozens of unreleased Bruce Springsteen songs from across his career explained in five tracks. In 1998, Bruce Springsteen released Tracks, a box set of 66 songs, many of them previously unreleased, others interesting demos or rare B-sides. Now comes Tracks II: The Lost Albums, an even more expansive collection of 83 songs (74 previously unheard) from albums he completed between 1983 and 2018, but never released. Tracks II offers something like an alternative history, so we highlight five songs from the different periods collected chronologically on the seven CD/seven album box set, also available digitally. Dream from the LA Garage Sessions '83 The 18 demos recorded between Nebraska and Born in the USA find Springsteen exploring Buddy Holly/Everly Brothers rockabilly (Little Girl Like You, Seven Tears), country (Jim Deer, County Fair) and different versions of the autobiographically reflective My Hometown and the Viet-vet narrative Shut Out the Light. This eerie piece has a man confronted by an unstated secret from his past that eats away at him. He flees his wife and family, haunted by something unexplained and perhaps inexplicable. There are two versions, this is the first. I Don't Know You from the Streets of Philadelphia Sessions album, 1993-94 Writing Streets of Philadelphia , the title song for the Jonathan Demme film Philadelphia, Springsteen experimented with synthesisers and loops to create the spectral sadness of that extraordinarily moving song, and then others. However, the album was sidelined and only one song slipped out, Secret Garden. A pity because it contained excellent songs, notably this, where a man sees his partner with new clothes, a different hairstyle and listening to different music. He suspects … Springsteen weighs the vocal with increasing defeat. The newly separated Elvis who sang You Were Always On My Mind would have understood this. Man from Somewhere North of Nashville, 1995 Those wanting Springsteen as a country singer rocking up the bar or getting melancholy with pedal steel have a whole album of that in Somewhere North of Nashville, recorded at the same time as the downbeat Ghost of Tom Joad. Detail Man and Stand On It are among the rockers; Tiger Rose, You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone and Under a Big Sky are the weepers. Repo Man is Chuck Berry taken to the honky-tonk, with sharp pedal steel and a bar-room-rattling piano part. Not a classic but everyone's having a good time. You will, too. Juarez from the album Inyo, 1995-1997 The songs on the excellent, unreleased Inyo album have Springsteen south of the border in a reflective, Hispanic frame of mind (Our Lady of Monroe, El Jardinero, One False Move). He goes a bit Roy Orbison on The Lost Charro. Ciudad Juarez is an acoustic ballad with lonely trumpet about a father travelling to Juarez and losing his daughter to the drug trade. Anyone who got immersed in the Netflix series Narcos Mexico will be on familiar if uncomfortable territory. of Us from the album Twilight Hours, recordings between 2010 and 2018 Springsteen's 2019 orchestrated Western Stars album was an ambitious marriage of songwriting with widescreen Western soundtracks. The songs on Twilight Hours come from the same period and sensibility, where Burt Bacharach-like arrangements (Sunday Love, Follow the Sun), Orbison's emotional depth (the immediately affecting September Kisses) and The Boss's storytelling find common ground on ballads. Two of Us (not the only title on Tracks II previously claimed) pulls together those threads on a song that sounds instantly familiar and soars from 'I walk with my head down', when love and the strings give him uplift.
Economist
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Economist
The six best 'lost' albums
NO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN fan should feel short-changed. Since he released his debut album in 1973, the Boss (pictured top) has put out another 20 studio albums, 78 singles and 121 live albums. On June 27th his hordes of fans—some 20m listen to his music every month on Spotify—will get access to a new trove of work. 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' collates unheard recordings from a 35-year period into seven albums. Mr Springsteen may be trying to make a profit from the music he still owns (he sold the rights to his studio albums to Sony for a reported $500m in 2021). Yet there is treasure here: in the dark electronica of 'Streets of Philadelphia Sessions', the sophisticated retro-pop of 'Twilight Hours' and the country stylings of 'Somewhere North of Nashville'. Here is a selection of great lost (but rediscovered) albums whose roster they join.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Hot night at the honky tonk on new Bruce Springsteen song 'Repo Man' from 'Tracks 2'
Emilio Estevez, eat your heart out. The new Bruce Springsteen song 'Repo Man' is a rollicking jam of Western swing with a beaut of a steel guitar and crackling piano that gets the heart pumping. Kind of like a repo man on assignment. The repossessed car is apparently outside a honky tonk. You can listen at 'Repo Man' is part of the unreleased 'Somewhere North of Nashville' album, which will be included on the 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums,' out Friday, June 27, via Sony Music. The 'Nashville' album was inspired by the sounds of 'honky tonk, rockabilly and uptempo country,' according to a Shore Fire Media release, and recorded simultaneously with 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' in the summer of 1995. The players include the late Danny Federici, Garry Tallent and Gary Mallaber — and a pedal steel from Marty Rifkin and fiddle from Soozie Tyrell. 'What happened was I wrote all these country songs at the same time I wrote 'The Ghost of Tom Joad.' Those sessions completely overlap each other," Springsteen said in a statement. "I'm singing 'Repo Man' in the afternoon and 'The Line' at night. So the country record got made right along with 'The Ghost of Tom Joad.' ' 'Streets of Philadelphia' got me connected to my socially conscious or topical songwriting," the statement continued. "So that's where 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' came from. But at the same time I had this country streak that was also running through those sessions, and I ended up making a country record on the side.' The duel album recording method was not new to the Boss. 'Born in the U.S.A.' was recorded at the same time 'Nebraska' was recorded in the early 1980s. As such, two tracks recorded for 'Born in the U.S.A.,' 'Stand On It' and 'Janey Don't You Lose Heart,' are included on 'Somewhere North of Nashville.' Springsteen has previously released the singles 'Rain In The River,' 'Blind Spot' and 'Faithless' from the upcoming 'Tracks 2.' Elsewhere, Springsteen and the E Street Band kick off 'The Land of Hope and Dreams Tour' on Wednesday, May 14, at the Co-op Live in Manchester, England. The 16-date tour is the final leg of the critically acclaimed E Street tour that began Feb. 1, 2023, at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. As for Estevez, he's the star, along with Harry Dean Stanton, of the 1984 cult classic 'Repo Man.' Subscribe to for the latest on the New Jersey music scene. Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Contact him at cjordan@ This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Bruce Springsteen brings honky-tonk heat on new Repo Man
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Hear Bruce Springsteen's Rockabilly ‘Repo Man' From ‘Tracks II' Box Set
Bruce Springsteen has shared another unreleased preview from his upcoming Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, this time unveiling 'Repo Man,' a track from the country-inspired Somewhere North of Nashville that he recorded at the same time as 1995's The Ghost of Tom Joad. As opposed to the 'socially conscious' and largely acoustic The Ghost of Tom Joad, the rockabilly rocker 'Repo Man' finds Springsteen having some honky tonk fun in the studio alongside a band that features Danny Federici, Garry Tallent, Gary Mallaber and pedal steel player Marty Rifkin, all of whom also played on Tom Joad. More from Rolling Stone Bruce Springsteen Shares 'Faithless' From Soundtrack to Unmade 'Spiritual Western' Bruce Springsteen Jams With John Fogerty, Tom Morello, Smokey Robinson at American Music Honors Bruce Springsteen Shares Unreleased 'Blind Spot' From 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' 'What happened was I wrote all these country songs at the same time I wrote The Ghost of Tom Joad. Those sessions completely overlap each other. I'm singing 'Repo Man' in the afternoon and 'The Line' at night. So the country record got made right along with The Ghost of Tom Joad,' Springsteen said in a statement. ''Streets of Philadelphia' got me connected to my socially conscious or topical songwriting. So that's where The Ghost of Tom Joad came from. But at the same time I had this country streak that was also running through those sessions and I ended up making a country record on the side.' In addition to 'Repo Man,' Somewhere North of Nashville also boasts 'Stand On It' and 'Janey Don't You Lose Heart,' two tracks that dated back to the Born in the U.S.A. sessions, as well as the title track and 'Tiger Rose,' another known outtake from the Tom Joad era. Tracks II, due out June 27, begins with L.A. Garage Sessions '83, which Springsteen recorded in the interim between Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A. The box set also features Streets of Philadelphia Sessions (with 'Blind Spot') and Inyo, a collection of songs from the road while promoting The Ghost of Tim Joad between 1995 and 1997. Perfect World spotlights several songs he wrote with longtime collaborator Joe Grushecky, the songs on Faithless were recorded in 2005 and 2006 for a film that has yet to be made, and Twilight Hours was created at the same time as Western Stars in 2018 and is essentially a companion album; Springsteen previously shared 'Faithless' from that latter LP. 'The Lost Albums were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,' Springsteen previously said in a statement. 'I've played this music to myself and often close friends for years now. I'm glad you'll get a chance to finally hear them. I hope you enjoy them.' In other Bruce news, Springsteen and the E Street Band's Land of Hope and Dreams Tour in Europe kicks off tonight in Manchester, England. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bruce Springsteen Soundtracks Imaginary Western On ‘Faithless'
Bruce Springsteen trots out his best husky twang amid mournful slide guitar lines on 'Faithless,' the third song to be released from his long-awaited collection of unreleased music, Tracks II: The Lost Albums. 'Faithless' is the title track to one of seven unheard, complete albums contained in the set, which arrives June 27 from Columbia. Faithless was previously described as a soundtrack to a 'spiritual Western' film that was never made. It was written during a two-week stint in Florida and recorded largely between the fall 2005 tour in support of Devils & Dust and the April 2006 release of We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. More from Spin: Ed Sheeran's New Album, 'Play,' Coming In September Wolfgang Van Halen Drafts Slash, Danny Trejo For 'The End' Video Evan Dando and the Axis of Weirdness 'This was a really unusual collection of songs,' the Boss admits of composing music for a film that didn't exist. 'You could recognize details and maybe a character or two. But for the most part, I just wrote atmospheric music that I thought would fit.' The album mostly features Springsteen, although producer Ron Aniello and E Street Band members Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Curtis King, Jr., Michelle Moore and Ada Dyer appear at times, as do Springsteen's wife Patti Scialfa and their children Evan and Sam. Beyond Faithless, Tracks II is divided into LA Garage Sessions '83, Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, Somewhere North of Nashville, Inyo, Twilight Hours and Perfect World. Somewhere North of Nashville features 'country combos with pedal steel,' Inyo includes 'richly woven border tales' and Twilight Hours is 'orchestra-driven, mid-century noir.' As for Perfect World, it is said to possess an 'arena-ready E Street flavor.' Springsteen and the E Street Band return to the road May 14 in Manchester, England. To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, click here.
