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Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars: Songs From The Film

Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars: Songs From The Film on 2LP vinyl. A 2019 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

2LP · Rock · 2019

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2019 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Rock shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel, ship within Ireland from EUR 5.95 per record or outside Ireland from EUR 12.00 per record.

Western Stars: Songs From The Film is Bruce Springsteen in 2019, revisiting the Western Stars studio album through performance rather than touring. The film setting matters: these are not just alternate takes placed beside the original record, but live film versions shaped by band, orchestra, narration and the physical intimacy of Springsteen presenting the songs as a single late-career meditation. The Wayfarer, Tucson Train, Stones, There Goes My Miracle, Hello Sunshine and Moonlight Motel keep the album's desert-road atmosphere, but the arrangements give the characters more air and more theatrical weight. The closing Rhinestone Cowboy cover deepens the record's conversation with Glen Campbell, Southern California pop, country-soul melancholy and the fantasy of life on the road. Its 2019 timing is important because Springsteen was between the memoir/Broadway period and the later E Street return, using film to make a reflective album communal without turning it into a standard concert document. The result is a companion piece about distance, age, regret and the strange dignity of still moving forward.

Western Stars: Songs From The Film matters because it turns Springsteen's 2019 orchestral-pop experiment into a performed narrative. It shows him treating the album as cinema, memory and live interpretation at once, adding a final Glen Campbell nod that clarifies the record's American-pop lineage.

For collectors, this is the companion chapter to Western Stars rather than a replacement for the studio album. It belongs with Springsteen's late-career storytelling projects because the film versions, orchestral setting and Rhinestone Cowboy closer capture a very specific 2019 self-portrait.

Orchestral late-period Americana with cinematic strings, country-pop polish, weathered vocals, desert imagery, soft brass, road-song melancholy and live-film spaciousness.

Recommended for: Collectors following Springsteen's 2010s narrative and film projects; Listeners who want Western Stars in a more performed, cinematic frame; Fans of Hello Sunshine, Tucson Train, Moonlight Motel and Rhinestone Cowboy.

What is Western Stars: Songs From The Film? It is the 2019 soundtrack companion to Springsteen's Western Stars film, featuring film versions of the album's songs. Does the album include a non-Western Stars song? Yes. It closes with Springsteen's version of Rhinestone Cowboy, connecting the project to a broader country-pop tradition. Is this the same as the Western Stars studio album? No. It follows the same core song cycle but presents the material as live film performances with a different atmosphere.