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7 Songs You Need to Check Out From Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums’

Bruce Springsteen's 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' has arrived. Here are the best songs.

Easily boasting the most trunk-worthy beat in the sound bank he kept with producer Toby Scott, “Blind Spot” nonetheless counters its bounce factor with a narrative on a relationship marred by betrayal, a thematic thread that goes through the whole set. With Western Stars collaborator Jon Brion on drums and a mariachi band swelling behind him, Springsteen channels Roy Orbison in the way by which he approaches the role of a retired charro (cowboy) who gave up a life in leather for the denim calm of the produce fields. The gospel-kissed “Let Me Ride,” like a good portion of the material from this box, initially stems from the mid ’90s (spring 1994, to be exact), where the rousing vocals of the E Street Choir — Patti Scialfa, Lisa Lowell, Curtis King, Michelle Moore and Ada Dyer — serve as a spiritual counterpoint to the music Bruce was creating for his next album at the time, 2006’s We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions.

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