Springsteen opens the vault with dozens of unreleased songs on long-awaited box set sequel

Chris Iorfida · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 04, 2025 9:02 AM EDT | Last Updated: 18 minutes ago

Bruce Springsteen connected Thursday announced the long-awaited sequel to his critically acclaimed 1998 Tracks box set, which volition incorporate 83 songs, the immense bulk of them antecedently unreleased.

The acceptable comprises what Springsteen says are 7 "lost" albums.

"The Lost Albums are records that were afloat records, immoderate of them adjacent to the constituent of being mixed and not released," Springsteen, 75, said successful a abbreviated video clip posted to the societal media platforms. "For 1 crushed oregon another, thing I felt was missing from immoderate of them, oregon they conscionable didn't consciousness implicit astatine the time."

Springsteen said helium was capable to revisit the recordings successful the "vault" during the aboriginal months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tracks II: The Lost Albums arrives successful assorted CD and LP formats connected June 27, with immoderate editions including a 100-page hardcover book.

Springsteen archetypal teased the records connected Wednesday morning. A abbreviated video posted to his Instagram relationship featured substance that read, "What was mislaid has been found."

Songs from sessions months earlier Born successful the U.S.A.

The acceptable starts with sessions from 1983 successful Los Angeles that person been wide bootlegged. Included are an alternate instrumentality of My Hometown, the seventh azygous from his smash 1984 album, Born successful the U.S.A., arsenic good arsenic a tally done Johnny Bye-Bye, which was archetypal heard arsenic a B-side to I'm connected Fire.

The bulk of the worldly is believed to beryllium from the 1990s, an antithetic decennary successful Springsteen's vocation successful which helium released 3 workplace albums, and nary aft 1995's sparse and mostly solo effort, The Ghost of Tom Joad.

In the past twelvemonth of the '90s, Springsteen reunited with the E Street Band, aft a hiatus of much than a decade.

"I often work astir myself successful the '90s arsenic having immoderate mislaid play oregon something," Springsteen said successful the societal clip previewing the release. 

"Not truly — I was moving the full time," added Springsteen, who has a location workplace astatine his residence successful Monmouth, N.J.

Other sections of the container acceptable committedness orchestra-driven and country-tinged material, arsenic good arsenic a disc entitled the Streets of Philadelphia sessions, named aft Springsteen's Oscar-winning opus from the 1993 movie of the aforesaid name.

A much accepted stone way from the set, Raised connected the River, was released to streaming platforms connected Thursday.

It volition beryllium the archetypal acceptable of archetypal Springsteen worldly to spot the airy of time since 2020's Letter to You. In 2022, helium released Only the Strong Survive, a postulation of covers of psyche classics.

Springsteen and the E Street set played their past circuit amusement connected Nov. 22 successful Vancouver. The radical volition embark connected a circuit of Europe and the U.K., opening May 17 successful Manchester, England, and concluding connected July 3 successful Milan, Italy.

Also connected Thursday, the trailer for the upcoming Springsteen biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere was previewed to audiences astatine Cinemacom successful Las Vegas.

The movie stars Jeremy Allen White from the FX amusement The Bear as Springsteen, and is to beryllium released aboriginal this year.