Bruce Springsteen has released Rain In The River, the first song lifted from Tracks II: The Lost Albums, a new boxset of seven `never-heard, full-length records' due this summer.
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The seven albums are titled Perfect World, LA Garage Sessions '83, Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions, Faithless, Somewhere North Of Nashville, Inyo and Twilight Hours.
The new boxset will retail at over €300.
Released on 27 June on Sony Music, there will also be a standalone LP and CD, entitled Lost And Found: Selections from The Lost Albums, featuring 20 selections from the new boxset, which spans 83 songs, recorded between 1983 and 2018.
In a video, the 75-year-old explains: "I often read about myself in the 90s as having some lost period or something. Really, I was working the whole time.
"During the pandemic, what I did for that period of time was I finished everything I had in my vault.
"So this is Tracks II: The Lost Albums. (They) are records that were full records. Some even to the point of being mixed and not released.
"For one reason or another, something I felt was missing from some of them, or they just didn't feel complete at the time."
He adds: "Over a period of time, I built up a small collection of full albums that, for one reason or another, never got put out."
"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."
According to Sony Music, "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 into 35 prolific years (1983-2018) 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 said.
The lost songs include film soundtrack work (for a movie that was never made) on Faithless, country combos with pedal steel on Somewhere North of Nashville, and orchestra-driven songs such as Twilight Hours.
The Lost Albums will be released 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.
Here are the full tracklistings for 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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