Bruce Springsteen has unveiled ‘Repo Man’, the latest preview of his upcoming box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums. It’s taken from Somewhere North of Nashville, a lost country album he recorded with the E Street Band in 1995, at the same time that he was working on The Ghost of Tom Joad. Take a listen below.
“What happened was I wrote all these country songs at the same time I wrote ‘The Ghost of Tom Joad,'” Springsteen explained. “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.”
Tracks II: The Lost Albums is set for release on June 27. So far, Springsteen has shared the title track from Faithless, the score to a movie that never got made; ‘Blind Spot’ from Streets of Philadelphia Sessions; and ‘Rain in the River’ from the compilation Perfect World.
