UPDATE TO BELOW STORY.......
Bruce Springsteen is now previewing Somewhere North of Nashville, the country collection that's one of the seven unreleased albums contained in his new compilation, Tracks II: The Lost Albums.
Recorded simultaneously with The Ghost of Tom Joad album in the summer of 1995, Somewhere North of Nashville features E Street Band members Danny Federici and Garry Tallent.
Springsteen says, “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. ‘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.”
You can find "Repo Man" below as well as other streaming sites.
Tracks II: The Lost Albums will be released on June 27th.
Check out his original post about it here from Bruce's official Instagram page.
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Bruce Springsteen's archival concert release for May takes us back to October 28th, 1999 at the Oakland Arena in Oakland, California for the 78th show of his reunion tour with The E Street Band.
This collection contains 24 songs including the first and only band performance of "Sinaloa Cowboys" off of his 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad, an appearance by Southside Johnny on "Hungry Heart," and a rare performance of "Blinded by the Light" to close out the show.
You can stream or buy the album at Nugs.net.