Bruce Springsteen reveals details of 'Tracks II' box set

Seven previously unheard Bruce Springsteen records will be released for the first time this summer on “Tracks II: The Lost Albums,” coming June 27 via Sony Music. The set spans 83 songs.

“'The Lost Albums' were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,” said Springsteen, in a press 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.”

From “LA Garage Sessions ’83” — a link between “Nebraska” and “Born in the U.S.A.” — to “Streets of Philadelphia Sessions” and beyond, “The Lost Albums” covers 1983-2018. 

“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 is film soundtrack work (for a movie that was never made) on “Faithless,” country combos with pedal steel on “Somewhere North of Nashville,” border tales on “Inyo” and orchestra-driven, mid-century noir on “Twilight Hours.”

Alongside the announcement of “The Lost Albums,” a first look at the collection also arrives today with “Rain In The River” — which comes from the lost album “Perfect World.”

Listen to “Rain In The River”: https://brucespringsteen.lnk.to/RITRPR

Pre-order “Tracks II: The Lost Albums”: https://brucespringsteen.lnk.to/TheLostAlbumsPR

“The Lost Albums” will arrive in limited-edition nine LP, seven CD and digital formats — including individual packaging for each previously-unreleased record, with a 100-page cloth-bound, hardcover book featuring archival photos, liner notes on each lost album from essayist Erik Flannigan and an introduction on the project from Springsteen himself.

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

Springsteen Talks About ‘The Lost Albums’ In A New Trailer For The 9 LP/7 CD Box Set Here: https://brucespringsteen.lnk.to/TLATrailerPR

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