Bruce Almighty
The Boss has two box sets on the way, is currently touring and now a movie on it’s way
Bruce Springsteen is very busy these days. The Boss recently shared a rarity track called ‘Sunday Love’ with the world. It is the first song from Bruce Springsteen’s Western Stars–era lost album Twilight Hours. That record is one of seven included in Tracks II: The Lost Albums, which is his new box set that drops on June 27.
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 is STILL digging through his back-catalogue and is now talking about a follow-up to the newly talked about box-set. Tracks II is a heap of previously never heard material already, but he says there is much more to share. “Tracks III, is already finished,” Springsteen told The New York Times. He said the next set will return to sessions dating from his 1973 debut, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., and include music recorded as recently as 2024. “It’s basically what was left in the vault,” Springsteen added. “So there was a lot of good music left. There are five full albums of music.” If you’re a fan of The Boss this is a great time to be alive and add to your collection.
If you thought releasing 12 new albums and touring the US and Europe was a lot to do in a just a couple months, Bruce also has a movie coming out. The Bear star Jeremy Allen White will be transforming into the music icon in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, a music biopic about The Boss. The trailer for the film was teased this week and appears to be focused on a time of turmoil in Springsteen’s musical career. Conducted by Scott Cooper, who directed Jeff Bridges to a best actor Oscar for Crazy Heart, his latest project takes a page from Warren Zanes’ book about Springsteen making his very personal 1982 album Nebraska.
Musician based biopics are definitely trending up with A Complete Unknown most recently and Bob Marley: One Love, Elvis, Bohemian Rhapsody , Back to Black and Rocketman before that. It seems everyone is chasing an Oscar with this format and Jeremy Allen White, as was Timothée Chalamet, is a frontrunner already. I personally thought he should have gotten a “Supporting Actor” nod for his role as wrestler Kerry Von Erich in Iron Claw.
Bruce Springsteen is certainly being illuminated by a spotlight and under a social microscope these days as he and the president have a back and forth that makes headlines nearly every day. Springsteen described the current administration to The New York Times this way: “It’s an American tragedy,” he told the publication. “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. It was ripe for a demagogue. And while I can’t believe it was this moron that came along, he fit the bill for some people.”
Trump had this to say about the musician on social media “Never liked him, never liked his music or his Radical Left Politics and, importantly, he’s not a talented guy — just a pushy, obnoxious JERK. This dried out prune of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back in the Country.”
Like him? Don’t like him? The fact remains that Bruce is literally everywhere these days and making sure that his narrative will be well documented long after he is gone. If there’s one thing I can say about The Boss, it’s that he has never sway from standing his ground and speaking his mind.