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14-05-2025
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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
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01-05-2025
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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.
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01-05-2025
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Bruce Springsteen's Mythic Lost Albums Compiled in New Box Set: Listen to 'Rain in the River'
All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by Pitchfork editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, Condé Nast may earn an affiliate commission. Bruce Springsteen, photo by Danny Clinch For decades, Bruce Springsteen fans have whispered of a suite of albums that the Boss recorded in full—particularly in the 1990s—but never released. That collection was known as Tracks II, and today, it became a reality. On June 27, seven albums of never-before-heard Springsteen music will be collected in a box set, spanning from 1983 to 2018. In a trailer, Springsteen describes going into his vault during the pandemic and polishing off these albums, in part to put to bed the narrative of his 'lost '90s.' Below, watch that trailer and listen to a new song, 'Rain in the River,' from the Perfect World collection. Plus, check out the box set's full tracklist. Among the seven albums are LA Garage Sessions '83—a bridge between Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A.—the 1993 Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, the abandoned movie soundtrack Faithless, an E Street Band–assisted country album called Somewhere North of Nashville, and the Western Stars preface Twilight Hours. Inyo is described as a set of cinematic border tales, while Perfect World is 'the one thing on this that wasn't initially conceived as an album,' says Springsteen. The complete set includes 74 songs that have never been heard, and a further eight new versions of songs that otherwise found the light of day. $350.00, Rough Trade Tracks II: The Lost Albums: LA Garage Sessions '83: 01 Follow That Dream 02 Don't Back Down On Our Love 03 Little Girl Like You 04 Johnny Bye Bye 05 Sugarland 06 Seven Tears 07 Fugitive's Dream 08 Black Mountain Ballad 09 Jim Deer 10 County Fair 11 My Hometown 12 One Love 13 Don't Back Down 14 Richfield Whistle 15 The Klansman 16 Unsatisfied Heart 17 Shut Out The Light 18 Fugitive's Dream (Ballad) Streets of Philadelphia Sessions: 01 Blind Spot 02 Maybe I Don't Know You 03 Something in the Well 04 Waiting on the End of the World 05 The Little Things 06 We Fell Down 07 One Beautiful Morning 08 Between Heaven and Earth 09 Secret Garden 10 The Farewell Party Faithless: 01 The Desert (Instrumental) 02 Where You Goin', Where You From 03 Faithless 04 All God's Children 05 A Prayer by the River (Instrumental) 06 God Sent You 07 Goin' to California 08 The Western Sea (Instrumental) 09 My Master's Hand 10 Let Me Ride 11 My Master's Hand (Theme) Somewhere North of Nashville 01 Repo Man 02 Tiger Rose 03 Poor Side of Town 04 Delivery Man 05 Under a Big Sky 06 Detail Man 07 Silver Mountain 08 Janey Don't You Lose Heart 09 You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone 10 Stand on It 11 Blue Highway 12 Somewhere North of Nashville Inyo: 01 Inyo 02 Indian Town 03 Adelita 04 The Aztec Dance 05 The Lost Charro 06 Our Lady of Monroe 07 El Jardinero (Upon the Death of Ramona) 08 One False Move 09 Ciudad Juarez 10 When I Build My Beautiful House Twilight Hours: 01 Sunday Love 02 Late in the Evening 03 Two of Us 04 Lonely Town 05 September Kisses 06 Twilight Hours 07 I'll Stand by You 08 High Sierra 09 Sunliner 10 Another You 11 Dinner at Eight 12 Follow the Sun Perfect World: 01 I'm Not Sleeping 02 Idiot's Delight 03 Another Thin Line 04 The Great Depression 05 Blind Man 06 Rain in the River 07 If I Could Only Be Your Lover 08 Cutting Knife 09 You Lifted Me Up 10 Perfect World Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
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17-04-2025
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Bruce Springsteen Nods To '90s Hip-Hop On ‘Blind Spot'
Bruce Springsteen experiments with loops, synthesizers and the rhythms of mid-1990s hip-hop on 'Blind Spot,' the second song to emerge from his long-awaited collection of unreleased music, Tracks II: The Lost Albums. The song is found on Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, one of seven unheard, complete albums contained on the set, which arrives June 27 from Columbia. The Boss is said to have 'pored over' CDs of drum samples at his Los Angeles home during an era that also yielded 'Streets of Philadelphia,' the Oscar-winning song from the 1993 Tom Hanks/Denzel Washington-starring film Philadelphia. Eventually, he started making his own loops with the assistance of engineer Toby Scott, onto which he'd add synths. Throughout Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, Springsteen plays almost all of the music, beyond a handful of contributions from 1992-93 touring band members Patti Scialfa, Soozie Tyrell and Lisa Lowell. More from Spin: Nas, Wu-Tang Members Releasing New Albums With Mass Appeal Eddie Vedder To Premiere EB Research Doc At Tribeca Fest John Mayer, Kings Of Leon Top Pilgrimage Festival Bill 'That was just the theme that I locked in on at that moment,' Springsteen says of 'Blind Spot.' 'I don't really know why. Patti and I, we were having a great time in California. But sometimes if you lock into one song you like, then you follow that thread. I had 'Blind Spot,' and I followed that thread through the rest of the record.' Although long rumored, Springsteen reps now confirm that these sessions were indeed finished, mixed and planned to be released in the spring of 1995, but the album was shelved when the Boss opted to reunite with the E Street Band instead after a seven-year break. 'I said, well, maybe it's time to just do something with the band, or remind the fans of the band or that part of my work life,' he recalls. 'So, that's where we went. But I always really liked Streets of Philadelphia Sessions. During the Broadway show, I thought of putting it out [as a standalone release]. I always put them away, but I don't throw them away.' Beyond Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, Tracks II is divided into LA Garage Sessions '83, Faithless, Somewhere North of Nashville, Inyo, Twilight Hours and Perfect World. Faithless is akin to a soundtrack for a film that was never made, 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.' Beyond a 16-show European tour this summer with the E Street Band, Springsteen remains closely involved with the biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, in which he will be portrayed by The Bear star Jeremy Allen White. The movie chronicles the making of the 1982 album Nebraska and portions of it have been filmed on location at the Jersey Shore. To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, click here.
Telegraph
03-04-2025
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Lost albums are usually lost for a reason. But Bruce Springsteen's will be different
It's only April, but Christmas would seem to be coming early for Bruce Springsteen fans, with the bard of blue-collar rock announcing the release of seven previously unheard albums. Granted, it isn't the first time Springsteen has opened the vaults – in 2015, he shared a three-hour-plus extended edition of his 1980 opus The River, crammed with out-takes, alternative versions and an hour-long documentary. But this new project – which he has christened 'Tracks II' – is something else entirely. On June 27, he will share seven 'lost' records made between 1983 and 2018 – each, by the sounds of it, a fully-realised work that, for various reasons, he had chosen not to put out into the world in the moment. If it's a cash-in – and the collected vinyl and CD editions are priced at £265 a-piece – it's one with a difference. Tracks II will, at the very least, provide a unique insight into Springsteen's creative process. Amongst the works soon to see daylight are a 'hip-hop-influenced album from the early 1990s', a country record titled Somewhere North of Nashville, and a 'pop' project called Twilight Hours. In other words, he isn't chasing the cynical music industry trend of scraping the out-takes barrel so much as inviting his audience to enter a sort of Bruce Springsteen parallel dimension – one where he went pop rather than rock and, with that hip hop LP, embraced the funk-master within. For devotees, it is an opportunity to dive headlong into the extended Bruce-o-verse. The news has been met with a spectrum of emotions among Springsteen fans. Many are shocked at the recommended retail price – north of 250 quid, or, in layperson's terms, the first 20 minutes of an Oasis concert. Others are disappointed that Tracks II will seemingly skip a much-rumoured electric version of his stripped-down 1982 masterpiece Nebraska. There is also, it should be pointed out, a Tracks part one – a 1998 collection of b-sides, including his demo of Born in the USA. Whatever their feelings, few fans will be entirely blind-sided by this week's announcement. Springsteen has long hinted at the existence of a vast trove of shelved work. In his 2016 autobiography, Born To Run, he recalls putting together an LP with a hip-hop edge immediately after experimenting with synths and a drum machine to write The Streets of Philadelphia for Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia (for which he won an Oscar). Springsteen spent a year toiling on the record – only to decide it was the wrong project at the wrong time. Aware that 1987's Tunnel Of Love was regarded by many as too introspective, he wanted to get back to a more anthemic sound. He wrote: 'I had to come to terms with the fact that after my year of work, writing, recording, mixing it was going on the shelf. That's where she sits.' But now he is dusting it down, and what good news that is for Springsteen lovers. It is also confirmation that, to the end, he remains a maverick. What other artist would devote more than a year of their life to a Broadway show, as he did in 2017, or, just this week, guest on a concept record by The Waterboys about Hollywood loose cannon Dennis Hopper? By announcing Tracks II he's ripping up the rule book one more time and for Bruce aficionados willing to pay the admittedly high asking price, the prospect of an entirely new continuum of Springsteen albums is surely a signal that glory days are here again.
