These “Tracks” go deep and far.
Bruce Springsteen’s upcoming “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” includes seven unreleased albums recorded between 1983-2018 with 83 new songs. The package will be released June 27 on Sony Music.
The companion “Lost And Found: Selections from The Lost Albums,” featuring 20 highlights from the collection, will be released the same day.
“‘The Lost Albums’ were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,” said Springsteen in a Thursday news release. “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.”
The music includes “the lo-fi exploration of ‘LA Garage Sessions ’83’ — serving 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,’” according to the release.
The “Tracks II” album “Somewhere North of Nashville” is composed of “country combo”; there’s “richly-woven border tales” on the album “Inyo”; and “orchestra-driven, mid-century noir” on “Twilight Hours.”
A new single, “Rain in the River,” hypnotic and emotive with distorted guitar and a heavy beat from the album “Perfect World,” was released on Thursday as part of the announcement.
“The Lost Albums” are available in a limited edition set of nine LPs or seven CDs that includes the original packaging of each unreleased album and a hardcover book bound on a 100-page canvas, which features photos from a few common archives, notes on each lost album by essayist Erik Flannigan and a personal introduction from Springsteen on the project, according to the release.
Bruce Springsteen previously teased ‘Tracks II’ album
The Boss seemingly hinted at the “Tracks II” collection years before he announced the upcoming album.
“I have a box set of five unreleased albums that are basically post-1988,” said Springsteen to Rolling Stone in 2022. “People look at my work in the ’90s, and they go, ‘The ’90s wasn’t a great decade for Bruce. He was kind of doing this, and he wasn’t in the E Street Band.’ I actually made a lot of music during that period of time. I actually made albums. For one reason or another, the timing wasn’t right or whatever, I didn’t put them out.”
The first volume of “Tracks” was released in 1998 and included 66 songs, spanning from 1972 to 1998, on four CDs. Diehard fans have long speculated about, discussed and pined for the existence of a “Tracks II” package.
“Tracks II: The Lost Albums” was compiled by Springsteen during the COVID-19 shutdown, he said, alongside producer Ron Aniello, engineer Rob Lebret and supervising producer Jon Landau at Thrill Hill Recording in Colts Neck, New Jersey. Prices range from $14.98 for the companion CD to $349.98 for the box set in vinyl format.
Tracks II: The Lost Albums
LA Garage Sessions ’83
- 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)
Streets of Philadelphia Sessions
- 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
Faithless
- 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)
Somewhere North of Nashville
- 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
- 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
Twilight Hours
- 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
Perfect World
- 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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