Rock icon Bruce Springsteen will release his new album, ‘Letter To You’, recorded live in his New Jersey home studio with the E Street Band, on October 23, reported AFP. The first single which is also the title track is now available for fans.
The track ‘Letter To You’, with its layered guitars and dramatic percussion, is classic E Street Band. Springsteen has performed with them since 1972.
In a statement, the 70-year-old said, “I love the emotional nature of ‘Letter To You’. And I love the sound of the E Street Band playing completely live in the studio, in a way we’ve never done before, and with no overdubs.”
He said that they made the album in just five days, recording at his home studio in New Jersey. “It turned out to be one of the greatest recording experiences I’ve ever had,” Springsteen added.
The album will feature nine songs Springsteen penned recently, along with new versions of three previously unreleased tracks from the 1970s, ‘Janey Needs a Shooter,’ ‘If I Was the Priest’ and ‘Song for Orphans.’
Along with it being his 20th studio album, it also marks Springsteen’s first time back with the E Street Band since his 2016 tour ‘The River.’ The album comes one year after New Jersey’s favorite son released his meditative ‘Western Stars’ album and concert film hearkening back to the 1970s-era golden age of the Laurel Canyon music scene.
Springsteen burst onto the international stage in 1975 with ‘Born to Run,’ developing a signature hard-driving rock style recounting the mundanities of everyday life. In a public conversation with director Martin Scorsese last year, he revealed that he was likely to returning to those roots, saying he had struggled writing songs for the rock band but had a breakthrough.
Springsteen said last year, “I wrote almost an album’s worth of material for the band… it just came out of almost nowhere. I had almost two weeks of those daily visitations and it was so nice. It makes you so happy.”
