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Bruce Springsteen rocks for Holocaust remembrance in New York City

Bruce Springsteen was a surprise performer at the USC Shoah Foundation’s Ambassadors for Humanity Gala Oct. 13, 2024, at the New York Hilton Midtown.

  • “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” includes seven unreleased albums recorded between 1983 and 2018.
  • Team Springsteen released a lyric video for the riveting “Rain on the River,” from the lost “Perfect World” album, described as encapsulating “that project’s arena-ready E Street flavor.”

Who’s making “Tracks”?

Bruce Springsteen and Max Weinberg. Springsteen’s upcoming “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” includes seven unreleased albums (83 songs) recorded between 1983 and 2018. It will be released on Friday, June 27, on Sony Music.

Weinberg, known as Mighty Max to E Street band fans, gave the Boss a hand on the project

“Five, six seven years ago I spent the whole summer playing on about 50 songs of this where I was really pleased that I replaced a bunch of really well-known drummers who didn’t quite have the feel, and drum machines,” said Weinberg from the stage of the Vixen venue in Illinois during a Max Weinberg Jukebox show on April 4.

Fan Emily Ventrello shared the clip. “Some of the stuff that I recorded with Bruce is on these records, and they’re really cool,” Weinberg added.

To break down that period, seven years ago the Boss was in New York for his historic “Springsteen on Broadway” run at the Walter Kerr Theatre; six years ago the “Western Stars” album and movie was released; and five years ago was the period of COVID-19 lockdown, which did see the release of Springsteen and the E Street Band’s “Letter to You” in October 2020.

Springsteen said he went into his “vault” during the pandemic on the “The Lost Album” video trailer, released on April 4.

“This guy digs deep, deep, deep,” Weinberg said. “It’s coming out in June — not that he needs me to plug his new record, but there’s really some really cool stuff. There’s the long-awaited sort of Burt Bacharach-Hal David album that he did, and he took some songs from that.”

That would be “Twilight Hours” from “The Lost Albums.”

“There’s a great couple of rockabilly songs, and he hired a group of Mexican, not mariachis exactly, but classical Mexican musicians to do a record, which is incredible,” said Weinberg, referring to the lost album “Inyo.”

“Inyo” is a Native American word that means “dwelling place of the great spirit,” according to the Inyo County website. The county is located in the eastern central part of California.

Springsteen spoke of the “Streets of Philadlephia Sessions” lost album, which incorporates “drum loop and synthesizer sounds” into the music, according to the “Tracks 2” press release.

“This would’ve been my fourth record in a row about relationships,” wrote Springsteen in his memoir “Born to Run,” referring to “Tunnel of Love,” Lucky Town” and “Human Touch.”

“If I could’ve felt its fullness, I wouldn’t have hesitated to put it out. But a not-fully-realized record around the same topic felt like one too many.”

Team Springsteen released a lyric video for the riveting “Rain on the River,” from the lost “Perfect World” album, described as encapsulating “that project’s arena-ready E Street flavor.”

“I’ve heard all this stuff so I’m here to tell you, check it out,” Weinberg said.

 Prices for the new albums range from $14.98 for the companion CD to $349.98 for the box set in vinyl format.

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

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Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey. Contact him at cjordan@app.com