Springsteen Inches Closer To Sinatra on ‘Twilight Hours’
One of the seven never-before-heard Bruce albums coming in that big beautiful box we’ve been telling you about—Tracks II: The Lost Albums (Sony Music)—due June 27 is Twilight Hours, his homage to the Great American Songbook. He’s released one song from that collection—“Sunday Love”—and it sounds like something Burt Bacharach would’ve written for Dionne Warwick. Bruce describes the Twilight Hours music as “romantic, lost-in-the-city songs.” A rumination on what becomes of the broken-hearted, “Sunday Love” has drummer “Mighty” Max, wife Patti Scialfa, fiddler Soozie Tyrell and producer Ron Aniello, among others, adding their collective talent.
Bruce says, “at one time it was either a double record [with 2019’s Western Stars] or they were part of the same record. I love Burt Bacharach and I love those kinds of songs and those kinds of songwriters. I took a swing at it because the chordal structures and everything are much more complicated, which was fun for me to pull off. All this stuff could have come right off of those ‘60s albums.”