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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN EXPLORES COUNTRY COMBOS AND PEDAL STEEL ON NEVER-HEARD RECORD ‘SOMEWHERE NORTH OF NASHVILLE’

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN EXPLORES COUNTRY COMBOS AND PEDAL STEEL ON NEVER-HEARD RECORD ‘SOMEWHERE NORTH OF NASHVILLE’

LISTEN TO “REPO MAN” HERE: https://brucespringsteen.lnk.to/RepoMan

12-SONG COLLECTION ARRIVES JUNE 27, AS ONE OF 7 UNRELEASED FULL-LENGTHS AVAILABLE ON ‘TRACKS II: THE LOST ALBUMS’ (SONY MUSIC): https://brucespringsteen.lnk.to/TheLostAlbumsPR

 

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” would ultimately mark Springsteen’s first time cutting material live in the studio, with a full band, since “Born In The U.S.A.”

“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”: https://brucespringsteen.lnk.to/RepoMan

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

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.

 

Tracks II: The Lost Albums 

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN EXPLORES COUNTRY COMBOS AND PEDAL STEEL ON NEVER-HEARD RECORD ‘SOMEWHERE NORTH OF NASHVILLE’

 

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 

 

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