Bruce’s ‘New’ Faithless Song: Mysteriously Beautiful
Bruce by Danny Clinch
One of the seven complete never-before-released albums due June 27 in Tracks II, the mammoth Sony Music Bruce box, is a soundtrack he wrote and recorded for a movie that never got released, the title track of which, “Faithless,” is a somber meditative haunting slice of folk-pop (hear it below). The soundtrack has 11 songs Bruce recorded between the end of his Devils & Dust tour in November of 2005 and release of We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions in April of 2006. Four of the tracks have no vocals, movie-music to the max. The film in question is described as a “spiritual western.”
Bruce calls the album “unusual.” He wrote it all “before a single frame of the film was shot—over a prolific two weeks in Florida,” according to his camp. “You could recognize details and maybe a character or two,” adds the artist, “but for the most part, I just wrote atmospheric music that I thought would fit.” Although it is not an E Street Band album, it has appearances by producer Ron Aniello, fiddler Soozie Tyrell, plus singers Lisa Lowell, Curtis King, Jr., Michelle Moore and Ada Dyer. Plus, it was a family thing as Patti Scialfa, Evan Springsteen and Sam Springsteen contribute.
“Faithless” is the third song from Tracks II to see the light of day after “Rain In The River” from Perfect World and “Blind Spot” from the Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions.
LISTEN: https://open.spotify.com/album/0d8swHQ9ch1mzuwKUHOBjj
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