It no longer just "stays in NJ" - TRACKS II is here at last!

June 27, 2025

Happy Tracks II: The Lost Albums Release Day! Despite feeling it important and necessary to address that elephant in the room yesterday, today we are nothing but eager to begin diving into all of the music itself, as we know that many of you, Dear Readers, are, too, regardless of whatever digital/physical medium you'll be using to do so.

We also plan to take our sweet ol' summertime doing so. Bruce Springsteen has chosen to present this massive amount of previously unreleased Tracks II material as seven distinct "lost albums," so we fully intend to treat that approach accordingly, really sitting with each of these records and letting each one sink in deeply before writing extensively about it. We plan to have more than just one writer taking on this big job, too, so you'll be getting some different and interesting perspectives along the way. We're looking forward to doing this kind of listening, thinking, and writing, and we think you'll agree that ultimately, our not rushing anything unnecessarily will yield much greater rewards for all of us. After all, summer's here (at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere) and the time is right for digging in this deep, right?

In the meantime, happy listening to all, y'all. It's been a long time comin', but now it's here!