Rock Legend to Release First Country Music Album After Shelving It for 30 Years

Rock legend to release first country music album after shelving it for 30 years

Bruce Springsteen fired up his fans when he announced back in April that he was releasing seven — yes, seven — “lost” albums on June 27.

Bruce Springsteen Shares First Song From Unvaulted Country Album

“Repo Man” is taken Somewhere North of Nashville, the shelved LP Springsteen recorded alongside The Ghost of Tom Joad in 1995

Bruce Springsteen Unveils “Somewhere North of Nashville” Ahead of 'Tracks II' and Summer Tour - That Eric Alper

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 […] The post Bruce Springsteen Unveils “Somewhere North of Nashville” Ahead of ‘Tracks II’ and…

Bruce Springsteen “Repo Man” – that’s mine now, pal

What did we say?  We said seven previously unreleased albums was almost bound to bring us seven previously unheard songs – and here’s the latest. ‘Repo Man’ kicks off the unreleased album ‘Somewhere North of Nashville’ and it is perhaps the biggest surprise of all the unheard album releases – it’s Springsteen country.  Pedal steel, fiddle and honky-tonk piano…it’s all there.  How did this happen?  Well, we turn to Springsteen who explains: “What…

Bruce Springsteen Shares Unheard Honky Tonk Tune, “Repo Man,” From ‘Tracks II’ Box Set - 101.5 WKKG

On Wednesday (May 14), Bruce Springsteen shared the previously unreleased song, “Repo Man,” a rollicking honky tonk number recorded during the same sessions as 1995’s The Ghost of Tom Joad. The song is another preview from Springsteen’s upcoming Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, with “Repo Man” featured on the country-inspired Somewhere North of Nashville album included in the collection. “What happened was I wrote all these country songs at t…

Bruce Springsteen Shares Unearthed Country Song, Calls Out "Corrupt, Incompetent, And Treasonous" Trump Administration

We’re about to get a vast treasure trove of entire albums that Bruce Springsteen recorded and then never released. Next month, he’ll drop Tracks II: The Lost Albums, a box set of seven complete LPs that he recorded at different points in his career, mostly in the ’90s. Springsteen has released a handful of early singles — “Rain In The River,” “Blind Side,” “Faithless” — and they all show vastly different sides of his sound. Now, we get a whole n…