Bruce Springsteen has shared the rarity “Sunday Love,” the first song from his Western Stars–era lost album Twilight Hours. That record is one of seven compiled on Tracks II: The Lost Albums, his new box set, which is out June 27. Listen to “Sunday Love” below.
Twilight Hours is an orchestral album of “romantic, lost-in-the-city songs” inspired by the American pop standards, said Springsteen in press materials. “At one time it was either a double record [with Western Stars] or they were part of the same record,” he added. “I love Burt Bacharach and I love those kinds of songs and those kinds of songwriters. I took a swing at it because the chordal structures and everything are much more complicated, which was fun for me to pull off. All this stuff could have come right off of those ’60s albums.” Players include the E Street Band’s Max Weinberg, Patti Scialfa, and Soozie Tyrell, Kaveh Rastegar and Scott Tibbs, and producer Ron Aniello.
Springsteen has now released a song from all but one of the shelved albums compiled on Tracks II. The seven records span from 1983 to 2018, and include the mariachi-assisted Inyo, the country album Somewhere North of Nashville, the unreleased movie score Faithless, and the sample-based Streets of Philadelphia Sessions. The one album that Springsteen has not previewed is LA Garage Sessions ’83.
Springsteen and the E Street Band are on the final leg of a tour that began in 2023. Read the column “Bruce Springsteen’s Tour Is a Party Where the Ghosts of His Past Are on the Guest List.”
