Bruce Explores Mariachi Music on ‘Inyo’

Bruce Springsteen by Danny Clinch

June 27 can’t come fast enough. That’s the date seven complete never-before-heard Springsteen albums will be released in one big beautiful box, Tracks II. One of the albums, Inyo, is particularly fascinating as it contains his 1990s collaborations with a host of Mariachi Musicians. For now, we can listen to “Adelita,” a song for the women of Mexico who fully participated in that country’s fight for independence.

Bruce: “Inyo was a record I wrote in California during long drives along the California aqueduct, up through Inyo Country on my way to Yosemite or Death Valley. I was enjoying that kind of writing so much. I would go home to the hotel room at night and continue to write in that style because I thought I was going to follow-up The Ghost Of Tom Joad with a similar record, but I didn’t. That’s where Inyo comes from. It’s one of my favorites. There was constant border reporting in the Los Angeles Times, so it was a big part of your life.”

LISTEN TO ‘ADELITA’: https://brucespringsteen.lnk.to/Adelita