Bruce Springsteen Shares 1st Glimpse Of Lost ‘90s Album With ‘Blind Spot’
Listen to the previously unreleased cut from Streets of Philadelphia Sessions.
By Nate Todd Apr 17, 2025 • 2:03 pm PDT
Bruce Springsteen shared a previously unreleased song, “Blind Spot.” The track is part of Springsteen’s Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, one of seven previously unreleased records set to be released on the collection Tracks II: The Lost Albums, out June 27 via Sony Music.
Bruce wrote and recorded the material on Streets of Philadelphia Sessions following his Oscar-winning song of the same name for the 1993 film Philadelphia. The lost Streets of Philadelphia Sessions have been dubbed by fans the “loops record.”
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Press materials detailed the era:
Streets of Philadelphia Sessions found Springsteen exploring an interest in the rhythms of mid-1990s contemporary music, and particularly West Coast hip-hop. Initially pouring over CDs of drum samples at his home in Los Angeles, Springsteen began making his own loops with engineer Toby Scott — which formed a rhythmic base he’d build on with keyboards and synthesizers. Both a revelation and departure in his home recording, Springsteen is the primary instrumentalist throughout most of Streets of Philadelphia Sessions — with some assists from his 1992-1993 touring band as well as Patti Scialfa, Soozie Tyrell and Lisa Lowell.
The material on Streets of Philadelphia Sessions was fully mixed and Springsteen planned to release the tracks as an album in 1995. Instead, The Boss reunited with The E Street Band for the first time in seven years.
“I said, ‘Well, maybe it’s time to just do something with the band, or remind the fans of the band or that part of my work life,’” Bruce recalled. “So that’s where we went. But I always really liked Streets of Philadelphia Sessions… during the Broadway show, I thought of putting it out [as a standalone release]. I always put them away, but I don’t throw them away.”
Streets of Philadelphia Sessions is now set to see the light of day via Tracks II: The Lost Albums. Bruce previewed Philadelphia Sessions with “Blind Spot,” a song that would inform the rest of the recordings and “explores doubt and betrayal in relationships.”
“That was just the theme that I locked in on at that moment,” Springsteen said. “I don’t really know why. Patti and I, we were having a great time in California. But sometimes if you lock into one song you like, then you follow that thread. I had ‘Blind Spot,’ and I followed that thread through the rest of the record.”
Listen to “Blind Spot” below:
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