Bruce Springsteen – Tracks II (The Lost Albums 1983 – 2018) (7LP)

TRACKS II: THE LOST ALBUMS are seven unheard Bruce Springsteen records made between 1983–2018.

 

Featuring 82 previously unreleased songs, The Lost Albums fill in chapters of Springsteen’s expansive career timeline, while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist. “The Lost Albums were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,” said Springsteen. “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.”

 

From 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, The Lost Albums offer unprecedented context to 35 prolific years of Springsteen’s songwriting and home recording. “The ability to record at home whenever I wanted allowed me to go into a wide variety of different musical directions,” Springsteen explained. Throughout the set, that sonic experimentation takes the form of film soundtrack work (for a movie that was never made) on Faithless, country combos with pedal steel on Somewhere North of Nashville, richly woven border tales on Inyo, orchestra-driven, mid-century noir on Twilight Hours and E Street favoured rock on Perfect World.

 

The Lost Albums are available in limited-edition nine-LP and seven-CD formats, including original 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.

 

Tracklist:

 

LA Garage Sessions ’83:

Side A
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

 

Side B
1. Fugitive’s Dream
2. Black Mountain Ballad
3. Jim Deer
4. County Fair

 

Side C
1. My Hometown
2. One Love
3. Don’t Back Down
4. Richfield Whistle

 

Side D
1. The Klansman
2. Unsatisfied Heart
3. Shut Out The Light
4. Fugitive’s Dream (Ballad)

 

Streets of Philadelphia Sessions:

 

Side A
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

 

Side B
1. We Fell Down
2. One Beautiful Morning
3. Between Heaven and Earth
4. Secret Garden
5. The Farewell Party

 

Faithless:

 

Side A
1. The Desert (Instrumental)
2. Where You Going, Where You From
3. Faithless
4. All God’s Children
5. A Prayer By The River (Instrumental)
6. God Sent You

 

Side B
1. Goin’ To California
2. The Western Sea (Instrumental)
3. My Master’s Hand
4. Let Me Ride
5. My Master’s Hand (Theme)

 

Somewhere North Of Nashville:

 

Side A
1. Repo Man
2. Tiger Rose
3. Poor Side of Town
4. Delivery Man
5. Under A Big Sky
6. Detail Man

 

Side B
1. Silver Mountain
2. Janey Don’t You Lose Heart
3. You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone
4. Stand On It
5. Blue Highway
6. Somewhere North of Nashville

 

Inyo:

 

Side A
1. Inyo
2. Indian Town
3. Adelita
4. The Aztec Dance
5. The Lost Charro

 

Side B
1. Our Lady of Monroe
2. El Jardinero (Upon the Death of Ramona)
3. One False Move
4. Ciudad Juárez
5. When I Build My Beautiful House

 

Twilight Hours:

 

Side A
1. Sunday Love
2. Late in the Evening
3. Two of Us

 

Side B
1. Lonely Town
2. September Kisses
3. Twilight Hours

 

Side C
1. I’ll Stand By You
2. High Sierra
3. Sunliner

 

Side D
1. Another You
2. Dinner at Eight
3. Follow The Sun

 

Perfect World:

 

Side A
1. I’m Not Sleeping
2. Idiot’s Delight
3. Another Thin Line
4. The Great Depression
5. Blind Man

 

Side B
1. Rain In The River
2. If I Could Only Be Your Lover
3. Cutting Knife
4. You Lifted Me Up
5. Perfect World