SPOILER ALERT!
Everything we know about…Tracks III
BRUCE Springsteen ends the Lost Albums film with a bombshell. “This is Tracks II:The Lost Albums, but there will be a Tracks III,” he grins. Quite what that will consist of remains open to speculation. Producer Ron Aniello recalls that at one stage Tracks II was much longer. “We had 10 discs and I think we had a couple of extra albums, but I can’t remember much about them,” he says tantalisingly. “I know at one point we had 110 songs. The others might turn up on Tracks III. I don’t know. I am aware of stuff I’ve recorded with him that hasn’t been released – and there’s a lot of it. With each record, stuff gets left behind.” Erik Flannigan is also aware of more material than has so far been released, saying that Tracks II came from a “super-set” of songs that were completed in 2020, at least some of which will be on Tracks III. He won’t be drawn on what this contains, but it’s interesting to think about what is known to be missing from Tracks and Tracks II – all post- Rising recordings with The E Street Band for instance, as well as material from Bruce’s very early years, going right back to that famous audition for Columbia in May 1972. And could Tracks III finally include the long-awaited “electric Nebraska”? Let the speculation commence…