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Written in tandem with 2019’s "Western Stars", over the course of a decade, it’s a collection that Springsteen describes as “romantic, lost-in-the-city songs” — ruminating on what becomes of the brokenhearted.
The album is previewed with a never-heard Springsteen original, "Sunday Love", which features contributions from The E Street Band’s Max Weinberg, Patti Scialfa and Soozie Tyrell as well as producer Ron Aniello, and "Western Stars" collaborators Kaveh Rastegar and Scott Tibbs.
“At one time it was either a double record [with “Western Stars”] or they were part of the same record,” explained Springsteen. “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 sixties albums.”
Simultaneously, Twilight Hours finds Springsteen taking inspiration from the vocal work of Frank Sinatra and Andy Williams, the prose of Flannery O’Connor and James M. Cain, and the Robert Mitchum film, Out Of The Past.
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