Bruce Springsteen Lonesome Day EP (2002 2018)

Columbia Records released the Bruce Springsteen Live Collection “Songs from the Road” in November 2018. In January 2019 and March 2019, two more live collections were submitted with “Songs of Friendship” and “Songs of Hope”. On November 14, 2019 - “The Live Series: Songs from Around the World”, the fourth sampler was released, which comprises a total of 15 songs.

28-song set. Tour premieres of “Roll of the Dice” and “Viva Las Vegas” (its first performance since 2002); “Hungry Heart” and “Racing in the Street” return to the set. Four songs from 2020’s Letter To You: “Ghosts,” “Letter to You,” “Last Man Standing” and “I’ll See You In My Dreams.” “Last Man Standing” features a new arrangement. “I’ll See You In My Dreams” is performed solo acoustic to end the show. Two songs from 2022’s Only the Strong Survive: “Don’t Play That Song” (written by Ahmet Ertegun and Betty Nelson, popularized by Ben E. King) and “Nightshift” (written by Franne Golde, Dennis Lambert and Walter Orange, popularized by The Commodores). Concert stalwarts like “Because The Night,” “Dancing in the Dark,” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” are performed in tighter, shorter versions.

This Sony release is essentially the Bruce Springsteen greatest-hits set that appeared earlier in 2009 as a Wal-Mart exclusive – setting off a mini storm in the media about whether or not the pro-union Springsteen should have any dealings at all with the non-union Wal-Mart company – with three tracks, "Long Walk Home" (from 2007's Magic) and live versions of "Because the Night" and "Fire," added to the end of the sequence. Columbia's 18-track Greatest Hits set from 1995 probably does a better job of charting through the commercial, radio-ready side of Springsteen's career, but the addition of the live tracks here strengthens this collection and makes it feel like a much broader and more rounded portrait than the original Wal-Mart issue was. The truth is, Springsteen has so many great songs that it is probably impossible to put out a single-disc greatest-hits set that would please everyone, but this one essentially does it's job – you've heard all of these songs on the radio.

28-song set. Tour premieres of “Lonesome Day” and “Seven Nights to Rock” (written by Buck Trail Louis Innis, and Henry Glover, popularized by Moon Mullican); “Atlantic City” returns to the set. Four songs from 2020’s Letter To You: “Ghosts,” “Letter to You,” “Last Man Standing” and “I’ll See You In My Dreams.” “Last Man Standing” features a new arrangement. “I’ll See You In My Dreams” is performed solo acoustic to end the show. One song from 2022’s Only the Strong Survive: “Nightshift” (written by Franne Golde, Dennis Lambert and Walter Orange, popularized by The Commodores). Concert stalwarts like “Because The Night,” “Dancing in the Dark,” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” are performed in tighter, shorter versions.