New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Bruce Springsteen will release "Somewhere North of Nashville" in full on "Tracks II: The Lost Albums" (out June 27 via Sony Music), a previously-unheard collection inspired by the sounds of honky tonk, rockabilly and uptempo country. Recorded simultaneously with "The
Ghost of Tom Joad" in the summer of 1995, "Somewhere North of Nashville" features much of the core band at the heart of those sessions - including
Danny Federici, Garry Tallent and Gary Mallaber. Adding elements like pedal steel from Marty Rifkin (later a member of The Sessions Band) and fiddle from Soozie Tyrell, "Somewhere North of Nashville" saw Springsteen spontaneously cutting material live in the studio with a full band, not unlike what he had done for the recording of "
Born In The U.S.A." a decade earlier. Fittingly, the tracklist for "Somewhere North of Nashville" includes two songs originally planned for that album, "Stand On It" and "Janey Don't You Lose Heart."
"What happened was I wrote all these country songs at the same time I wrote 'The
Ghost of Tom Joad.' Those sessions completely overlap each other. I'm singing 'Repo Man' in the afternoon and 'The Line' at night. So the country record got made right along with 'The
Ghost of Tom Joad,'" Springsteen recalled. "'Streets of Philadelphia' got me connected to my socially conscious or topical songwriting. So that's where 'The
Ghost of Tom Joad' came from. But at the same time I had this country streak that was also running through those sessions and I ended up making a country record on the side."
Listen to "Repo Man":
In addition to today's release of "Repo Man,"
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will kick off The Land of Hope & Dreams Tour tonight in Manchester, England. The first of 16 scheduled dates this summer to over 700,000 fans, the 2025 European run will conclude "one of the most successful tours of all time" (Pollstar) — which has been called "the greatest show on earth" (Billboard) and "a masterclass in the uplifting power of rock-and-roll" (Washington Post). For more information about
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band's The Land of Hope & Dreams Tour, visit brucespringsteen.net/tour.
Pre-order "Tracks II: The Lost Albums": https://brucespringsteen.lnk.to/TheLostAlbumsPR
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
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band: "The Land of Hope & Dreams Tour"
May 14 - Manchester, England - Co-op Live
May 17 - Manchester, England - Co-op Live
May 20 - Manchester, England - Co-op Live
May 24 - Lille, France - Stade
Pierre Mauroy
May 27 - Lille, France - Stade
Pierre Mauroy
May 31- Marseille, France -
Orange Vélodrome
June 4 - Liverpool, England - Anfield Stadium
June 7 - Liverpool, England - Anfield Stadium
June 11 - Berlin, Germany - Olympiastadion
June 15 - Prague, Czech Republic - Airport Letnany
June 18 - Frankfurt, Germany - Deutsche Bank Park
June 21 - San Sebastian, Spain - Estadio Reale Arena
June 24 - San Sebastian, Spain - Estadio Reale Arena
June 27 - Gelsenkirchen, Germany - Veltins Arena
June 30 - Milan, Italy - San Siro Stadium
July 3 - Milan, Italy - San Siro Stadium
