Bruce Springsteen shares previously unreleased track ‘Sunday Love’
Bruce Springsteen has continued to preview his upcoming box set, Tracks II: The Lost Albums, with the release of the previously unheard song ‘Sunday Love’.
The box set, set to arrive on June 27th, comprises seven complete records made by ‘The Boss’ between 1983 and 2018. For various reasons, Springsteen discarded these albums until he revisited them during the pandemic and began putting them together for the huge compilation.
The latest cut, ‘Sunday Love,’ is taken from Twilight Hours, an album made around the same time as Springsteen’s 2019 LP, Western Stars. However, rather than release a double album, Springsteen elected to only share Western Stars, and Twilight Hours was left to sit in his vault.
In a new statement, Springsteen explained: “At one time it was either a double record (with Western Stars) or they were part of the same record. I love Burt Bacharach and I love those kinds of songs and those kinds of songwriters.”
He continued: “I took a swing at it because the chordal structures and everything are much more complicated, which was fun for me to pull off. All this stuff could have come right off of those sixties albums.”
According to a press release, ‘Sunday Love’ takes influence from a vocal standpoint from Frank Sinatra and Andy Williams, while Flannery O’Connor and James M Cain inspired the prose. Robert Mitchum’s movie, Out Of The Past, was also another inspiration for Springsteen while writing the song.
Meanwhile, Springsteen recently concluded the UK leg of his ongoing European tour with two headline shows in Liverpool at Anfield, which included a special appearance from Paul McCartney to duet with ‘The Boss’ on ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’.
His summer tour will continue over the next month, with visits to Prague, Frankfurt, San Sebastian, Gelsenkirchen, and Milan on the agenda.
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