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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
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New Bruce Springsteen 'Sunday Love' will spark a romance with orchestral pop
Bruce Springsteen's got the 'lover's blues' on the new song 'Sunday Love,' but Boss fans should have a new romance thanks to the musical gem. '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 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: New Bruce Springsteen song Sunday Love released
