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news arrived Thursday morning via Instagram. The 83-song
collection is mostly previously unreleased tracks, 74 of them
never-before-heard songs, in a box set that includes a 100-page
hardcover book.
In a short video clip posted to the social media platform,
Springsteen explains that during the COVID-19 pandemic, he began
completing “everything I had in my vault,” he says. “The Lost
Albums are records that were full records, some of them even to
the point of being mixed and not released.”
Springsteen first teased the records on Wednesday morning. A
short video posted to his Instagram account revealed that
something called “The Lost Albums" was forthcoming, along with
Thursday's date, April 3, 2025. The clip also featured text that
read “What was lost has been found.”
The caption urged his followers to head to www.lostalbums.net.
It led to a subscription webpage and featured the dates
“1983-2018."
“Tracks ll" follows his first “Tracks” volume. Released in 1998,
it was a 4-CD, 66-song collection of unreleased material.
Springsteen released his last studio album, “Only the Strong
Survive,” in 2022. It was a collection of covers, the Boss
taking on classics from the Four Tops, Temptations, Supremes,
Frankie Wilson, Jimmy Ruffin and others.
The late soul legend Sam Moore, a frequent Springsteen
collaborator, sang on two of the cuts.
“I wanted to make an album where I just sang,” Springsteen said
in a statement at the time. “And what better music to work with
than the great American songbook of the Sixties and Seventies?"
Next month, Springsteen and the E Street band will embark on a
tour of Europe and the U.K., beginning May 17 at Co-op Live in
Manchester, England, and concluding on July 3 in Milan, Italy,
at the San Siro Stadium.
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