Bruce Springsteen to release seven never-heard-before full records on ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums’

Bruce Springsteen is set to release seven never-heard-before full records on ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums’.

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The collection, which arrives on June 27, will feature seven previously-unheard Springsteen albums. You can pre-order them here.

The collection, which spans a massive 83 songs, is said to “fill in rich chapters of Springsteen’s expansive career timeline — while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist,” according to a press release.

In a statement, Springsteen said: “’The Lost Albums’ were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released. 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.”

One of the collections is described as “lo-fi exploration of ‘LA Garage Sessions ’83’” that “serves as a crucial link between ‘Nebraska’” and ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ to the drum loop and synthesizer sounds of ‘Streets of Philadelphia Sessions’…’The Lost Albums’ offer unprecedented context into 35 prolific years (1983-2018) of Springsteen’s songwriting and home recording,” the statement added.

Springsteen elaborated further, saying: “The ability to record at home whenever I wanted allowed me to go into a wide variety of different musical directions.”

Other collections on there include a soundtrack – via ‘Faithless’ – for a movie that was never made, along with a country-themed collection titled ‘Somewhere North Of Nashville’. Others, the press statement adds, include “orchestra-driven, mid-century noir on ‘Twilight Hours’.”

Another of the lost albums called ‘Perfect World’ is introduced with a new track, ‘Rain In The River’, which you can listen to below, together with a video about the collection from Springsteen.

Listen to both here:

 

The collection will arrive via “limited-edition nine LP, seven CD and digital formats — including distinctive packaging for each previously-unreleased record, with a 100-page cloth-bound, hardcover book featuring rare archival photos, liner notes on each lost album from essayist Erik Flannigan and a personal introduction on the project from Springsteen himself,” according to a statement.

There is also a companion set called ‘Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums’ that will feature 20 highlights from across the collection.

Tracks II: The Lost Albums 

‘LA Garage Sessions ’83’

1. ‘Follow That Dream’
2. ‘Don’t Back Down On Our Love’
3. ‘Little Girl Like You’
4. ‘Johnny Bye Bye’
5. ‘Sugarland’
6. ‘Seven Tears’
7. ‘Fugitive’s Dream’
8. ‘Black Mountain Ballad’
9. ‘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’

1. ‘Blind Spot’
2. ‘Maybe I Don’t Know You’
3. ‘Something In The Well’
4. ‘Waiting On The End Of The World’
5. ‘The Little Things’
6. ‘We Fell Down’
7. ‘One Beautiful Morning’
8. ‘Between Heaven And Earth’
9. ‘Secret Garden’
10. ‘The Farewell Party’

‘Faithless’

1. ‘The Desert’ (Instrumental)
2. ‘Where You Goin’, Where You From’
3. ‘Faithless’
4. ‘All God’s Children’
5. ‘A Prayer By The River’ (Instrumental)
6. ‘God Sent You’
7. ‘Goin’ To California’
8. ‘The Western Sea’ (Instrumental)
9. ‘My Master’s Hand’
10. ‘Let Me Ride’
11. ‘My Master’s Hand’ (Theme)

‘Somewhere North of Nashville’

1. ‘Repo Man’
2. ‘Tiger Rose’
3. ‘Poor Side of Town’
4. ‘Delivery Man’
5. ‘Under A Big Sky’
6. ‘Detail Man’
7. ‘Silver Mountain’
8. ‘Janey Don’t You Lose Heart’
9. ‘You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone’
10. ‘Stand On It’
11. ‘Blue Highway’
12. ‘Somewhere North Of Nashville’

‘Inyo’

1. ‘Inyo’
2. ‘Indian Town’
3. ‘Adelita’
4. ‘The Aztec Dance’
5. ‘The Lost Charro’
6. ‘Our Lady Of Monroe’
7. ‘El Jardinero (Upon The Death Of Ramona)’
8. ‘One False Move’
9. ‘Ciudad Juarez’
10. ‘When I Build My Beautiful House’

Twilight Hours

1. ‘Sunday Love’
2. ‘Late In The Evening’
3. ‘Two Of Us’
4. ‘Lonely Town’
5. ‘September Kisses’
6. ‘Twilight Hours’
7. ‘I’ll Stand By You’
8. ‘High Sierra’
9. ‘Sunliner’
10. ‘Another You’
11. ‘Dinner At Eight’
12. ‘Follow The Sun’

‘Perfect World’

1. ‘I’m Not Sleeping’
2. ‘Idiot’s Delight’
3. ‘Another Thin Line’
4. ‘The Great Depression’
5. ‘Blind Man’
6. ‘Rain In The River’
7. ‘If I Could Only Be Your Lover’
8. ‘Cutting Knife’
9. ‘You Lifted Me Up’
10. ‘Perfect World’

Springsteen recently paid tribute to Jo DePugh, the New Jersey pitcher who inspired his 1984 hit ‘Glory Days’. DePugh passed away from cancer at the age of 75 last month.

“Just a moment to mark the passing of Freehold native and ballplayer Joe DePugh,” Springsteen wrote in an Instagram post . “He was a good friend when I needed one. ‘He could throw that speedball by you, make you look like a fool’ …. Glory Days my friend.”

DePugh and Springsteen grew up together in Freehold, New Jersey, and played baseball in the same youth league. Their chance encounter at a bar in 1973 served as the real-life basis for one of the most iconic verses on Springsteen’s ‘Born In The U.S.A.’ album.

The classic hit reached Number Five on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985 and Number 17 on the UK singles chart.

Elsewhere, last month The Boss, Flea, Karen O, Michael Stipe, Johnny Depp and more led an all-star jam with Patti Smith at her tribute concert in New York.

During the show, Springsteen and the night’s house band led by Tony Shanahan, a longtime member of Smith’s band, along with Flea and Rolling Stones tour drummer Steve Jordan, also performed a rendition of ‘Because The Night’.

In other news, Adolescence star Stephen Graham recently revealed that he was left in tears after Springsteen got in touch to praise his performance in the upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere. The film, which stars The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White as a young Springsteen, follows the heartland rocker during the making of his 1982 album ‘Nebraska’, with Graham playing his late father, Douglas “Dutch” Springsteen.

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