As he continues his run of UK dates, it’s still a while until the release of Springsteen’s much-anticipated lost albums box set – seven previously released full recordings. Some have detected a slight cynicism in the coverage of the release of single from each album in advance of the set being released – not a bit of it, we prefer the term “analytical”.
And so, with a happy inevitability, here’s a song from what may turn out to be one of the best of the bunch. ‘Adelita’ is taken from ‘Inyo’ which could have been released around the back end of the 1990s. As Springsteen explains: “‘Inyo‘ was a record I wrote in California during long drives along the California aqueduct, up through Inyo County on my way to Yosemite or Death Valley. I was enjoying that kind of writing so much. [On ‘The Ghost Of Tom Joad’ tour] 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’ came from. It’s one of my favorites.”
