Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Streets of Philadelphia Sessions’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

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(Note: This is the second 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.)

Of the seven albums in Bruce Springsteen’s Tracks II boxed set, Streets of Philadelphia Sessions was the one he came closest to finishing and releasing at the time when it was made (1994). A spring 1995 release was being considered.

“The problem I had then was I had made Tunnel of Love, I had made Human Touch, I had made Lucky Town: three albums about relationships in a row,” says Springsteen in the boxed set’s liner notes. “It was the early nineties, and that was a very volatile and different time in the…