Bruce Springsteen: “They say that in the 90s I was lost? I had small children and I was growing them “

It is not only the “boss” who made the history of music, but also a father present. While the world discussed one of his presumed “Lost period” in the 90s, Bruce Springsteen – tonight in concert in San Siro in Milan – grew his children. Forty years after the legendary San Siro concert, he arrives Tracks II: The Lost Albumsa box that opens up an unpublished music archive. A good part of these songs was recorded in those who were considered the “lost years” of Springsteen, who Between 1992 and 2002 he published only one album in the studio, The Ghost of Tom Joad. “It happened for a whole series of reasons,” explains Springsteen. “We had young children and I had no desire to work with the band. I was exhausted. But I continued to work on new music, I simply not published it ».

Behind every disc, there is a phase of his life. The family bond is evident by talking about Faithlessa collection of songs composed for a film never made: «A truly unusual collection of songs that had been commissioned to me for a film in the early 2000s. There was a western that dealt with some spiritual themes. I was in Florida with my daughter and in a very short period of two or three weeksI think I have practically finished all the songs ».

Each collection is the photograph of a period, even emotional, of its existence. As Twilight Hourswhich says: «I had the opportunity to sing in that type of wider American pop style. And the songs are written with that idea in mind. They are all romantic songs ». Or Inyowho, as Erik Flannigan, curator of the notes of the box, explains, is “a series of stories about Mexican-American culture and on living in Los Angeles: a little the sequel to Joad». Perfect Worldwhich closes the collection, represents the return to collective energy: “a large rock disc”, Flannigan defines it. Springsteen tells Genesis with a certain pride: “I had the team of Ron Aniello and Rob Lebret. The three of us can enter a study and do almost anything. Ron really helped me concentrate. “

Source: Vanity Fair

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