Springsteen’s use of a mariachi sounds on “The Lost Charro” is inadvertently well-timed to the current commercial boom for Mexican regional music artists like Peso Pluma. The lovely song, from the lost Inyo album, includes a full mariachi band and bears little resemblance to anything else in the Springsteen catalog.

Bruce Springsteen writes a lot of songs. That has been apparent over a 50-plus-year recording career that includes 19 albums of original material, stretching back to 1973’s Greetings From Asbury Park,

The digital album (MP3) cost of Tracks II: The Lost Albums will run you $69.99. The seven-CD set costs $299.99 if you order directly via Bruce Springsteen’s website, but Amazon has it listed on sale for $259.99. Similarly, the nine-LP set is on sale at Amazon for $328.