Another release from the Springsteen unreleased seven albums set – ‘Faithless‘ has a smoother ‘Nebraska‘ feel to it, with a bit of a Dylan twist as well “I reached for the hem of his garment / I stood in the light of the doorway / I saw my face in the waters at the river side / and it’s a hard, and it’s a hard faithless, faithless.” And maybe it’s not so surprising at that, as this is the title track of an un-released album that would have come between ‘Devils & Dust‘ and ‘The Seeger Sessions.’ ‘Faithless‘, the album, was meant to be a film soundtrack – only the film was never made. As Springsteen explains: “This was a really unusual collection of songs.” All of ‘Faithless‘ was composed before a single frame of the film was shot — over a prolific two weeks in Florida — he says of the results: “You could recognize details and maybe a character or two. But for the most part, I just wrote atmospheric music that I thought would fit.”
Like ‘Nebraska‘, the album was recorded primarily as a solo pursuit, with appearances throughout by producer Ron Aniello, touring members of The E Street Band — Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Curtis King, Jr., Michelle Moore and Ada Dyer — as well as contributions from Patti Scialfa, Evan Springsteen and Sam Springsteen.
