Bruce Springsteen’s unparalleled career spans 22 studio albums from 1973 through 2022. It’s been a remarkable run, by any measure. With “Tracks II: The Lost Albums,” his most recent archival release,

Springsteen's main guitar at the time was his now-retired Fender Telecaster "mutt" that he acquired nearly half a century ago. It was featured on the cover of his breakthrough album, Born to Run, and has “been in every club, theater, arena, and stadium across America, and most of the world,” , he told Stephen Colbert in 2021.

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,