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Bruce Springsteen is set to release his massive archival collection Tracks II: The Lost Albums next week, but The Boss still has plenty of music left in the vault. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Springsteen revealed he has already completed Tracks III.
“Tracks III, that is finished,” he told the Times, explaining that it includes “five full albums of music” and “basically” empties “what was left in the vault.” The collection dates back as far as his 1973 debut, Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ, with music as recent as 2024. “There was a lot of good music left,” he added.
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While the interview was conducted before Springsteen’s regular public lambasting of Donald Trump during the European leg (get tickets here) of his “Land of Hope and Dreams Tour,” the rock legend still addressed the “American tragedy” of the current political landscape.
“I think that it was the combination of the deindustrialization of the country and then the incredible increase in wealth disparity that left so many people behind,” he said. “And while I can’t believe it was this moron that came along, he fit the bill for some people. But what we’ve been living through in the last 70 days [are] things that we all said, ‘This can’t happen here.’ ‘This will never happen in America.’ And here we are.”
However, Springsteen also expressed hope by saying, “We don’t have an autocratic history as a nation. It’s fundamentally democratic, and I believe that at some point that’s going to rear its head and things will swing back. Let’s knock on wood.” Read the full interview here.
Tracks II arrives on June 27th and contains seven previously unreleased albums for a total of 82 songs recorded between 1983 and 2018. Pre-orders are ongoing.
In other Bruce news, the first trailer for the Nebraska-era biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere starring The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White dropped today, June 18th. Watch it here.
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