Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Somewhere North of Nashville’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
By: JAY LUSTIG | Published: 2025-06-20 21:16:00 | Source: www.njarts.net
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The cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Somewhere North of Nashville” album.
(Note: This is the fourth post in a series in which I will review the seven albums in Bruce Springsteen’s “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” boxed set, separately. The set will come out on June 27.)
Bruce Springsteen is so prolific that in his spare time, while recording his The Ghost of Tom Joad album in 1995, he made a second album as well: Somewhere North of Nashville, which is now part of the Tracks II: The Lost Albums boxed set.
The sessions “completely overlap each other,” Springsteen says in the boxed set’s liner notes, adding: “It was to lighten up the Ghost of Tom Joad sessions really.”
As its title suggest, Somewhere North of Nashville is a country record. It has a “band…