New Bruce Springsteen 'Sunday Love' will spark a romance with orchestral pop
'Sunday Love' (listen here) is the latest preview single from the upcoming 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' box set, due Friday, June 27. The new track was released Thursday, June 12, and it's part of the 'Twilight Hours' lost album.
'Sunday Love' draws inspiration from the '60s orchestral pop of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, with a more specific reference being their great pop classics with Jerseyan Dionne Warwick. The Boss delivers a vocal tour de force on the track, weary of heartache but optimistically bracing for a second chance at romance.
The 'Twilight Hours' songs were written in tandem with 2019's 'Western Stars' over the course of a decade.
'At one time it was either a double record (with 'Western Stars') or they were part of the same record,' said Springsteen in a statement released on Thursday. 'I love Burt Bacharach and I love those kinds of songs and those kinds of songwriters. I took a swing at it because the chordal structures and everything are much more complicated, which was fun for me to pull off. All this stuff could have come right off of those '60s albums.'
'Twilight Hours,' according to Shore Fire Media, 'finds Springsteen taking inspiration from the vocal work of Frank Sinatra and Andy Williams, the prose of Flannery O'Connor and James M. Cain, and the Robert Mitchum film 'Out Of The Past'.'
The track 'Sunday Love' features contributions from Max Weinberg, Patti Scialfa and Soozie Tyrell, producer Ron Aniello, and 'Western Stars' collaborators Kaveh Rastegar and Scott Tibbs.
'Sunday Love' is the sixth song to be shared from 'Tracks II' following 'Adelita' from the lost album 'Inyo'; 'Rain in the River' from 'Perfect World'; 'Blind Spot' from 'Streets of Philadelphia Sessions'; 'Faithless' from Faithless'; and 'Repo Man' from 'Somewhere North of Nashville.'
Springsteen's upcoming 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' includes 83 songs from the seven unreleased albums recorded between 1983 and 2018.
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)
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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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
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