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Bruce Springsteen's Tracks II: The Lost Albums Arrives June 27

Bruce Springsteen's Tracks II: The Lost Albums Arrives June 27

Seven previously-unheard Bruce Springsteen records will be released for the first time this summer with ā€œTracks II: The Lost Albums,ā€ coming June 27.


A set spanning 83 songs, "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. ā€œ'The Lost Albums' were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,ā€ said Springsteen. ā€œI’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.ā€

From the lo-fi exploration of ā€œLA Garage Sessions ’83ā€ — serving as a crucial link between ā€œNebraskaā€ and ā€œBorn in the U.S.A.ā€ — to the drum loop and synthesizer sounds of ā€œStreets of Philadelphia Sessions,ā€ ā€œThe Lost Albumsā€ offer unprecedented context into 35 prolific years (1983-2018) of Springsteen’s songwriting and home recording. ā€œThe ability to record at home whenever I wanted allowed me to go into a wide variety of different musical directions,ā€ Springsteen explained. Throughout the set, that sonic experimentation takes the form of film soundtrack work (for a movie that was never made) on ā€œFaithless,ā€ country combos with pedal steel on ā€œSomewhere North of Nashville,ā€ richly-woven border tales on ā€œInyoā€ and orchestra-driven, mid-century noir on ā€œTwilight Hours.ā€ Alongside the announcement of ā€œThe Lost Albums,ā€ a first look at the collection also arrives today with ā€œRain In The Riverā€ — which comes from the lost album ā€œPerfect World,ā€ and encapsulates that project’s arena-ready E Street flavor.

ā€œThe Lost Albumsā€will arrive in 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. A companion set — ā€œLost And Found: Selections from The Lost Albumsā€ — will feature 20 highlights from across the collection, also arriving June 27 on two LPs or one CD. ā€œThe Lost Albumsā€ were compiled by Springsteen with producer Ron Aniello, engineer Rob Lebret and supervising producer Jon Landau at Thrill Hill Recording in New Jersey.

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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

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