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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” 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.”

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”: 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
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