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 brucespringsteen.lnk.to/RepoMan.
'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.'
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Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Contact him at cjordan@app.com
This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Bruce Springsteen brings honky-tonk heat on new Repo Man
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