Bruce Springsteen, like many artists wasn’t just sitting around watching Netflix during the Covid era. He had the idea of going back through some unreleased material and polishing it up for release as a sequel to his Tracks of 1998, an understated effort by comparison. It is an indication of his greatness that he had at least seven unreleased albums sitting in the vault that had been put aside. Now here they are in all their glory along with great sleeve notes and a documentary telling the story from The Boss himself. We’re going to focus on the second record, the so-called Streets of Philadelphia sessions, an album recorded in 1994 and put aside “that pairs downtrodden tales of distance and doubt with drum loops and dreamy synths that occasionally border on trip-hop” according to Pitchfork‘s excellent review.
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