Tracks II: The Lost Albums

A new Bruce Springsteen box set and a compilation album set to be released on 27 Jun 2025

Tracks II: The Lost Albums is Bruce Springsteen's long awaited follow-up his 1998 box set Tracks. The new box set consists of seven "lost albums" recoded between 1983 and 2018, totaling 83 songs, of which 74 have never been officially released in any form.

  • L.A. Garage Sessions '83
  • Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions
  • Faithless
  • Somewhere North Of Nashville
  • Inyo
  • Twilight Hours
  • Perfect World
Bruce Springsteen -- Tracks II: The Lost Albums
Bruce Springsteen -- Tracks II: The Lost Albums

Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums is a "selections" album that compiles 20 tracks from the box set.

Bruce Springsteen -- Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums
Bruce Springsteen -- Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums

Tracks II: The Lost Albums and Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums are expected to be officially announced on 03 Apr 2025. A "trailer" for the upcoming set was posted at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Bruce Springsteen's YouTube channel and other online services. The previous day, Springsteen released a teaser on his social media account, linking to a new website, lostalbums.net, created for the two upcoming releases. The release date for both the box set and the compilation album is set to 27 Jun 2025.


Tracks II: The Lost Albums will be available as a limited edition seven-disc CD set or limited edition nine-disc LP set, as well as digital download and streaming. The physical releases will include the original packaging of each of the unreleased albums, with a hardcover book bound on a 100-page canvas with photos from a few common archives, notes on each lost album by essayist Erik Flannigan and a personal introduction about Springsteen's own project. Lost And Found: Selections From The Lost Albums will be available as a one-disc CD album or two-disc LP set.

Disc 1: (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]

Disc 2: (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

Disc 3: (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]

Disc 4: (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

Disc 4: (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

Disc 5: (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

Disc 6: (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
  1. FOLLOW THAT DREAM
  2. SEVEN TEARS
  3. UNSATISFIED HEART
  4. BLIND SPOT
  5. SOMETHING IN THE WELL
  6. WAITING ON THE END OF THE WORLD
  7. FAITHLESS
  8. GOD SENT YOU
  9. REPO MAN
  10. DETAIL MAN
  11. YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE
  12. THE LOST CHARRO
  13. INYO
  14. ADELITA
  15. SUNDAY LOVE
  16. HIGH SIERRA
  17. SUNLINER
  18. I'M NOT SLEEPING
  19. RAIN IN THE RIVER
  20. YOU LIFTED ME UP

Girlfriend

A new Bruce Springsteen recording premiered on 20 Dec 2024

On 20 Dec 2024, Bruce Springsteen called in Sirius XM's E Street Radio channel for an interview with host Jim Rotolo. The two talked about the ongoing tour and the upcoming Scott Cooper directed Springsteen biographical film Deliver Me from Nowhere, as well as what's next for 2025, including new music being released.

In the 10-minute conversation, Springsteen also talked about Slim Dunlap who passed away two days prior. He described him as "a unique guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the deepest and truest rock and roll souls I've ever heard." Springsteen had sent Rotolo in advance his own recording of Dunlap's GIRLFRIEND. It was premiered on-air midway through the interview. Introducing the song, Springsteen explained that he "cut it for a covers record that we were just fooling around with and working on in the studio with the band." When Rotolo asked Springsteen when he and the E Street Band recorded the song, he hesitantly answered that it was "probably a year ago or something. Yeah, just in the studio doing things." The song was likely recorded at Thrill Hill Recording (Springsteen's home studio) in Colts Neck, NJ.



Only The Strong Survive

Bruce Springsteen's 21st studio album released on
11 Nov 2022 on Columbia Records

Only The Strong Survive is Bruce Springsteen's twenty-first studio album. It was officially released on 11 Nov 2022 on Columbia Records. It consists of 15 tracks, all of which are covers. This marks the second time that Springsteen releases a cover album following We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions in 2006.

Bruce Springsteen -- Only The Strong Survive
Bruce Springsteen -- Only The Strong Survive

The album is "a collection of fifteen soul music greats," as described in the press release. It "celebrates soul music gems from the legendary catalogues of Motown, Gamble and Huff, Stax and many more." Springsteen commented: "I wanted to make an album where I just sang. And what better music to work with than the great American songbook of the Sixties and Seventies? I've taken my inspiration from Levi Stubbs, David Ruffin, Jimmy Ruffin, the Iceman Jerry Butler, Diana Ross, Dobie Gray, and Scott Walker, among many others. I've tried to do justice to them all and to the fabulous writers of this glorious music. My goal is for the modern audience to experience its beauty and joy, just as I have since I first heard it. I hope you love listening to it as much as I loved making it."

Only The Strong Survive was tracked at Thrill Hill Recording (Springsteen's home studio) in Colts Neck, NJ, following the sessions for Letter To You, which took place around November 2020. The core recording featured only Bruce Springsteen and producer Ron Aniello. In addition to lead vocals, Springsteen played guitar and keys on some tracks and Aniello played virtually every other instrument. Additional parts, including horns, strings, and background vocals were recorded at Power Station At BerkleeNYC in New York City, NY. Sam Moore makes a guest appearance on the album, singing harmony vocals on two tracks. His parts were recorded at Bullseye Studios in Miami, FL, with Andres Bermudezat engineering. Only The Strong Survive was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen, executive produced by Jon Landau, engineered by Rob Lebret and Ron Aniello at Thrill Hill Recording, mixed by Rob Lebret with Ron Aniello at Thrill Hill Recording, and mixed by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios in Portland, ME.

  • Bruce Springsteen appears on all of the album's tracks. He sings lead vocal and background vocals and plays guitar, keyboards, and piano.
  • Ron Aniello appears on all of the album's tracks. He plays drums, bass, percussion, guitar, vibes, piano, organ, keyboards, glockenspiel, Farfisa, Timpani, and chimes and sings background vocals.
  • Rob Lebret plays additional guitar on track 8.
  • Sam Moore makes a guest appearance on the album, singing harmony vocal (tracks 2 and 12) and second vocal (track 2).
  • Soozie Tyrell sings background vocals on tracks 2, 4, 6, and 15.
  • Lisa Lowell sings background vocals on tracks 2, 4, 6, and 15.
  • Michelle Moore sings background vocals on tracks 4 and 6.
  • Curtis King Jr. sings background vocals on tracks 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, and 15.
  • Fonzi Thornton sings background vocals on tracks 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, and 14.
  • Dennis Colins sings background vocals on tracks 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, and 14.
  • E Street Horns is a horn section consisting of Curt Ramm (trumpet), Barry Danielian (trumpet), Clark Gayton (trombone), Bill Holloman (tenor saxophone), Ed Manion (baritone saxophone), and Toni Timko (baritone saxophone). They appear on all tracks.
  • A strings section consisting of Rob Mathes (string arranger and conductor), Lisa Kim (concertmaster), and Sandy Park (string contractor) is listed in the album credits but it's not clear on which tracks it appears.

Only The Strong Survive was officially announced on 29 Sep 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (02:00 p.m. GMT). The announcement was made by Springsteen himself who addressed fans in a pre-recorded video posted online a few minutes earlier.


In anticipation to the announcement, Springsteen dropped hints on his social media accounts over the course of the previous three days. On 26 and 27 September, he shared each morning a photo of a road and of a steering wheel respectively, without any caption or comment.


On 28 September, he posted a 26-second promo clip of a vintage car FM radio dial turning to different stations and listening in for a few seconds, each station playing a different song from the upcoming album.


Only The Strong Survive is available as a single-disc CD and as a two-disc LP set, as well as digital download and streaming. Three editions of the vinyl release were issued: a regular edition on black vinyl, a limited edition on nightshade green vinyl exclusive to Bruce Springsteen's official webstore, and a limited edition on sundance orange or orbit orange vinyl exclusive to independent retailers.


Only The Strong Survive track list:

  1. ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE (Jerry Butler cover)
  2. SOUL DAYS (Dobie Gray cover)
  3. NIGHTSHIFT (Commodores cover)
  4. DO I LOVE YOU (INDEED I DO) (Frank Wilson cover)
  5. THE SUN AIN'T GONNA SHINE ANYMORE (The Walker Brothers cover, originally by Frankie Valli)
  6. TURN BACK THE HANDS OF TIME (Tyrone Davis cover)
  7. WHEN SHE WAS MY GIRL (Four Tops cover)
  8. HEY, WESTERN UNION MAN (Jerry Butler cover)
  9. I WISH IT WOULD RAIN (The Temptations cover)
  10. DON'T PLAY THAT SONG (Aretha Franklin cover, originally by Ben E. King)
  11. ANY OTHER WAY (William Bell cover)
  12. I FORGOT TO BE YOUR LOVER (William Bell cover)
  13. 7 ROOMS OF GLOOM (Four Tops cover)
  14. WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKENHEARTED (Jimmy Ruffin cover)
  15. SOMEDAY WE'LL BE TOGETHER (Diana Ross & The Supremes cover, originally by Johnny & Jackey)

DO I LOVE YOU (INDEED I DO) is the leading single from Only The Strong Survive. It was released on digital platforms on 29 Sep 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (2:00 p.m. GMT), the same time the album was officially announced.

A music video for the song was simultaneously released on Bruce Springsteen's YouTube channel to coincide with the single release. The video was shot on 01 Sep 2022 at Samson Stages in Brooklyn, NY and was directed and edited by Thom Zimny.


NIGHTSHIFT is the second single from Only The Strong Survive. It was released on digital platforms on 14 Oct 2022 at midnight in each time zone's local time.

A music video for the song was also released on Bruce Springsteen's YouTube channel on the same day at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time (4:00 a.m. GMT). The video was shot on 03 Oct 2022 at Samson Stages in Brooklyn, NY and was directed and edited by Thom Zimny.


DON'T PLAY THAT SONG is the third single from Only The Strong Survive. It was released on digital platforms on 28 Oct 2022 at midnight in each time zone's local time.

A music video for the song was also released on Bruce Springsteen's YouTube channel on the same day at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time (4:00 a.m. GMT). The video was shot on 01 Sep 2022 at Samson Stages in Brooklyn, NY and was directed and edited by Thom Zimny.


TURN BACK THE HANDS OF TIME is the fourth single from Only The Strong Survive. It was released on digital platforms on 11 Nov 2022 at midnight in each time zone's local time.

A music video for the song was also released on Bruce Springsteen's YouTube channel on the same day at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time (5:00 a.m. GMT). The video was shot on 03 Oct 2022 at Samson Stages in Brooklyn, NY and was directed and edited by Thom Zimny.



Latest Updates

03 Apr 2025: Lyrics page added for RAIN IN THE RIVER.
02 Apr 2025: Lyrics page added for BY YOUR SIDE.
21 Dec 2024: Lyrics page added for GIRLFRIEND.
13 Nov 2024: Lyrics and info updated for SLOW FADE.
02 Sep 2024: Lyrics page added for SHE DON'T LOVE ME NOW.
09 Aug 2024: Lyrics page added for ODDS OF THE BLUES.
31 Jul 2024: Lyrics page added for SANDPAPER.
18 Nov 2023: Lyrics and info updated for WAR.
04 Aug 2023: Lyrics page added for SUGARLAND [Cole Gallagher's cover version].
26 Jul 2023: Lyrics page added for BACK IN YOUR ARMS [Nils Lofgren's cover version].
24 Jul 2023: Lyrics page added for HISTORY BOOKS.
01 Jul 2023: Lyrics added for PERFECT WORLD and ROCK N ROLL HEART.
09 Apr 2023: Lyrics pages added for NEW YORK COMEBACK and ROCK N ROLL HEART.
13 Feb 2023: Lyrics page added for ADDICTED TO ROMANCE.
24 Oct 2022: Lyrics page added for JANN'S SONG.

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