Bruce Springsteen confirms details of ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums’ featuring 74 unreleased songs
Bruce Springsteen has confirmed details of Tracks II: The Lost Albums, which will be released on June 27th, 2025.
The boxset features seven complete records that have been made between 1983 and 2018 by ‘The Boss’ which have never previously seen the light of day. To preview Tracks II: The Lost Albums, Springsteen has shared the unheard song, ‘Rain in the River’.
In a statement, Springsteen explained: “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.”
The first completed album on the boxset is L.A. Garage Sessions ’83, which Springsteen made between the creation of Nebraska and Born In The USA. Next up is the Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, followed by Somewhere North of Nashville, the latter of which Springsteen recorded in May 1995.
Inyo also appears on the record, which Springsteen made while on the road touring The Ghost of Tim Joad in the mid to late 1990s. Meanwhile, Perfect World is a combination of songs that Springsteen has penned alongside his frequent collaborator Joe Grushecky.
Penultimately, Faithless was recorded in 2005 and 2006 as a soundtrack for a movie which has never been made. Lastly, Springsteen made Twilight Hours in 2018 while he was also recording Western Stars, with the two albums covering similar ground thematically.
Notably, all of the albums were recorded at Springsteen’s home studio which ties them together. “The ability to record at home whenever I wanted allowed me to go into a wide variety of different musical directions,” Springsteen said in a statement.
He also said in a promotional video for the project, “I often read about myself in the 1990s as having some ‘lost period’. Not really. I was working the whole time.”
Tracks II: The Lost Albums has been on Springsteen’s agenda since 2020 when his schedule was freed due to the pandemic; he explained, “What I did during that period of time was I finished everything I had in my vault. For one reason or another, something I felt was missing from some of them, or they just didn’t feel complete at the time.”
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