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Bruce Springsteen's Surprise Release Benefits From Anti-Trump Comments
Bruce Springsteen's surprise EP Land of Hope and Dreams climbs to No. 6 on the U.K.'s Official ... More Albums Downloads chart and debuts at No. 12 on the Americana chart. EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 30: Bruce Springsteen performs at MetLife Stadium on August 30, 2023 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by) Later this month, Bruce Springsteen will release one of the most highly-anticipated musical projects of the year, as Tracks II: The Lost Albums is scheduled to arrive on June 27 and will feature seven complete full-lengths that fans have never heard before. In a surprise move, the rocker recently delivered an unplanned EP, and in its second week of availability, it has grown in popularity and on the charts across the ocean. The short collection has become an even bigger hit in the United Kingdom than when it first arrived just days ago. Land of Hope and Dreams appears on two charts in the U.K. this frame. It debuted on just one list last time around, after a truncated release window, as it arrived mid-week. This time around, the EP opens at No. 12 on the Official Americana Albums chart, earning Springsteen his sixth career placement on that genre-specific tally. Last frame, Land of Hope and Dreams entered inside the top 10 on the Official Albums Downloads chart, launching at No. 8. Now that its first complete tracking period has passed, the set moves up, though only slightly. This week, the EP reaches a new peak of No. 6. Land of Hope and Dreams is a brief, six-song EP recorded during the opening night of the latest leg of Springsteen's concert trek with the E Street Band. The singer-songwriter renamed the venture the Land of Hope and Dreams Tour when it began again in the U.K. last month. It seems that Springsteen decided to release the EP after making incendiary comments about American President Donald Trump. The leader responded on social media, disparaging Springsteen, and the rocker made sure to include his speech on the EP — a move that may have helped turn it into a bestseller. Springsteen fills a pair of spaces on both the Official Albums Downloads and Official Americana Albums charts, but with different releases. On the downloads-only ranking, Greatest Hits dips from No. 35 to No. 80 after a recent spike, seemingly tied to his Trump remarks. Over on the Americana-only list, Best Of slides from No. 1 to No. 5, coming in just a few spots ahead of Land of Hope and Dreams.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
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Bruce Springsteen Shares ‘Faithless' From Soundtrack to Unmade ‘Spiritual Western'
Twenty years ago, Bruce Springsteen was approached by a filmmaker about creating the soundtrack to a 'spiritual Western' called Faithless that had yet to be filmed. He began penning material for it at the conclusion of the Devils and Dust tour in late 2005, and wound up with 11 songs, including four instrumentals. But the movie never went into production, the songs were placed in the vault, and not even the most devoted Springsteen fan that ever existed. The complete Faithless soundtrack is finally coming out June 27 as one of the seven discs on Tracks II: The Lost Albums, and the title track was shared with fans on Thursday. (The movie remains unmade, and the filmmaker behind it remains unknown.) 'This was a really unusual collection of songs,' Springsteen says in a statement, noting that he wrote the songs at his home in Florida over a period of just two weeks, even though the movie was little more than an idea at that point. '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.' More from Rolling Stone 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' How Craig Finn Made the Seventies L.A. Record of His Dreams The album is largely a solo project, but there are appearances by Patti Scialfa, producer Ron Aniello, E Street Band violist Soozie Tryell, and longtime background singers Lisa Lowell, Curtis King, Jr., Michelle Moore, and Ada Dyer. Springsteen and Scialfa's two sons, Sam Springsteen and Evan Springsteen, also contributed to the album. 'Faithless' is the third Tracks II: The Lost Albums track that Springsteen has unveiled over the past three weeks. He's also shared 'Rain in the River' from his late 1990s/early 2000s LP Perfect World, and 'Blind Spot' from his infamous shelved 1994 'drum loop' album, which is now known as Streets of Philadelphia Sessions. 'The Lost Albums were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,' Springsteen said in a statement when the project was announced. '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.' Springsteen's last live appearance took place on April 26 when he joined Smokey Robinson, John Fogerty, Tom Morello, Jackson Browne, Nils Lofgren, Darlene Love, and Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul for an incredible night of music at the third annual American Music Honors at Monmouth University. On May 14, he kicks off a European stadium tour in Manchester, England. It wraps up July 3 in Milan, Italy. 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
14-05-2025
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Bruce Springsteen Shares Unreleased ‘Blind Spot' From ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums'
Bruce Springsteen has shared his unreleased song 'Blind Spot,' the 'thematic center' of his Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, one of the seven LPs that have been unearthed for the upcoming Tracks II: The Lost Albums. Informally known as the 'Drum Loop' album and inspired by contemporary music like hip-hop at the time, Streets of Philadelphia Sessions was recorded in the mid-Nineties at Springsteen's Los Angeles home, with Springsteen serving as the primary instrumentalist with some help from his touring band at the time. More from Rolling Stone How Craig Finn Made the Seventies L.A. Record of His Dreams Bruce Springsteen Announces 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' Box Set Bruce Springsteen's High School Buddy Immortalized in 'Glory Days' Dead at 75 'Blind Spot,' like much of the Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, focuses on doubt and betrayal in a relationship. 'That was just the theme that I locked in on at that moment,' Springsteen said in a statement of the song. '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 Streets of Philadelphia Sessions were completed and mixed for a spring 1995 release, Springsteen opted to shelve the album and instead reunite with the E Street Band. '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,'' Springsteen added. '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.' 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 Somewhere North of Nashville — from that aforementioned E Street reunion in May 1995 — 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. '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.' 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
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Bruce Springsteen Releases Haunted Song ‘Faithless' From Upcoming ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums' Box Set
Bruce Springsteen continued to preview his upcoming expansive box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums on Thursday (May 1) with the haunting ballad 'Faithless.' The song is described as the title track from a 'long-lost soundtrack to a movie that was never made.' Like so many of The Boss' iconic songs, this one takes us down to the river, where love is found. 'Well, I work by the rocks of the river/ Faithless, faithless, faithless/ Then I met you,' Springsteen sings in a hushed voice over gentle, high desert-style acoustic guitar backing. 'I walked 'neath the eaves of the garden/ Faithless, faithless, faithless/ Then I saw you,' he adds with a chorus of female voices echoing his own. More from Billboard Bruce Springsteen's 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' Box Set To Feature Seven Never-Before-Heard Records Is Rose from 'Gypsy' the Greatest Role in Broadway History? That's What Tony Awards History Suggests 'Buena Vista Social Club,' 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Maybe Happy Ending' Lead 2025 Tony Award Nominations: Full List In a release announcing the song, it is called a 'meditation on purpose, belief and acceptance' that was originally intended to accompany a 'spiritual Western' film that never got made. Springsteen recorded much of the Faithless album between the end of the November 2005 Devils & Dust tour and the April 2006 release of the We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions album. The Faithless LP — one of seven previously unreleased albums included in the set due out on June 27 from Sony Music — has four instrumental songs that were written as interstitials for the film on a collection that is said to explore Springsteen's 'unique vision of spirituality in the mythic American West, while working inside of his uncharted artistic medium.' 'This was a really unusual collection of songs,' Springsteen said in a statement of the score album that was composed in a 'prolific' two weeks in Florida before a single frame of the movie was shot. '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,' he said. Mostly recorded as a solo effort, Faithless features appearances from producer Ron Aniello, touring members of The E Street Band Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Curtis King, Jr., Michelle Moore and Ada Dyer and the singer's wife and fellow E Street Band member and solo performer Patti Scialfa, as well as the couple's two adult sons, Evan and Sam Springsteen. 'Faithless' joins the other two pre-release songs previewing the Tracks II collection, the beat-heavy 'Blind Spot' from the 10-track Streets of Philadelphia Sessions and the turbulent, 'Rain in the River.' The 83-track collection will 'fill in rich chapters of Springsteen's expansive career timeline — while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist,' according to the initial release announcing the set, which noted that some of the albums got to the mixing stage before being shelved. Among the other albums included are the lo-fi LA Garage Sessions '83, the country-leaning Somewhere North of Nashville and the border tales LP Inyo, as well as the 'orchestra-driven, mid-century noir' Twilight Hours. The box set covers the years 1983-2018 and will be issued in a limited-edition 9-LP set , as well as 7-CD and digital formats, with distinctive packaging for each. A 20-track compilation, Lost and Found: Selections From The Lost Albums, will also be released on June 27 on two LPs and one CD. Listen to Springsteen's 'Faithless' below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
17-04-2025
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Bruce Springsteen to Release 7 Never-Before-Heard Albums Totaling 83 Songs: 'I Hope You Enjoy Them'
Bruce Springsteen fans are in for a treat. On Thursday, April 3, the "Hungry Heart" hitmaker announced the release of Tracks II: The Lost Albums, a collection of seven never-before-heard albums featuring music recorded between 1983 and 2018. According to a press release, The Lost Albums "fill in rich chapters of Springsteen's expansive career timeline — while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist." Related: Bruce Springsteen Pays Tribute to Late Friend Joe DePugh, Pitcher Who Inspired Hit 'Glory Days' After Chance 1973 Run-In ''The Lost Albums' were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,' said Springsteen 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.' Per a press release, the "lo-fi exploration of the lost album LA Garage Sessions '83 is "a crucial link" between 1982's Nebraska and 1984's Born in the U.S.A. and echoes the drum loop and synth sounds on Streets of Philadelphia Sessions. 'The ability to record at home whenever I wanted allowed me to go into a wide variety of different musical directions,' Springsteen said of his work. Also featured in the collection is a film soundtrack for a movie that was never made, called Faithless; an LP called Inyo, which is full of "richly-woven border tales;" and an "orchestra-driven, mid-century noir" project titled Twilight Hours. Springsteen also shared a first look at the 83-song collection with the track 'Rain In The River,' which comes from the lost album Perfect World and captures the project's "arena-ready E Street flavor." "Last night, I put on my jacket and I went for a ride / Smelled sweet mustard fields, and my Colt at my side / Like rain in the river / Rain in the river," he sings on the track. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Related: Bruce Springsteen Pays Tribute to Late Friend Joe DePugh, Pitcher Who Inspired Hit 'Glory Days' After Chance 1973 Run-In "The Boss" released his last studio album in 2022 with Only the Strong Survive, featuring covers of classics from the Four Tops, Supremes, Frankie Wilson, Temptations, Jimmy Ruffin and more. Additionally, the late soul icon and Springsteen collaborator Sam Moore, sang on two of the tracks. Tracks II: The Lost Albums is due June 27 via Sony Music. Read the original article on People
