Update on the new (we hope) Bruce album

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Aww...I kind of wish they tacked on the 13th track. Oh well, new Springsteen album, no sense in complaining :wink: I'm sure it's gonna be great :drool:
 
theedgefan said:

2. All The Way Home
3. Reno

At first I read "All the Way to Reno" and thought he was covering his new buddies from the Rock the Vote tour, R.E.M. :huh:
 
Catman said:
Aww...I kind of wish they tacked on the 13th track. Oh well, new Springsteen album, no sense in complaining :wink: I'm sure it's gonna be great :drool:


Perhaps it will be an unlisted bonus track. That's one way to do it...

This is awesome. New Bruce only five months after New U2.
 
Here some additional info. from Billboard.com...



Springsteen Stares Down 'Devils' On New Album

Bruce Springsteen re-teams with producer Brendan O'Brien on his 19th album, "Devils & Dust," which Columbia will release on April 26. The 12-track set follows the format of Springsteen's '90s studio work, in which he eschewed the presence of the full E Street Band and was instead surrounded by a rotating cast of collaborators.

The core band here features only Springsteen on guitar, O'Brien on bass and Steve Jordan (Steely Dan, Keith Richards) on drums. The latter also produced Springsteen's wife Patti Scialfa's 2004 Columbia studio album, "23rd Street Lullaby."

The title cut has been in Springsteen's catalog for several years, and was dusted off in soundchecks for the E Street Band's run on last fall's Vote for Change tour, but never performed at a show.

Two of the tracks -- "Long Time Comin'" and "The Hitter" -- date back at least 10 years and were performed during the tour in support of the 1995 album "The Ghost of Tom Joad."

Like much of the material on that set, the songs are both first-person narratives, using details and fragmented scenes to sketch out a life's story. The first is about a father celebrating the optimism that comes with an awaited child; the second about a street fighter nearing the end of an unenviable career.

Springsteen will tour acoustically in support of the new album, but no details have been announced as to who, if anyone, will back him or what size venues he will play.

"I was actually signed as an acoustic act, and I've always enjoyed playing acoustic," the artist told the Associated Press this week. "Even when I was in a band, back in my early days, I was always writing songs that weren't meant for the band."

"Devils & Dust" is the Springsteen's first studio album since 2002's O'Brien-produced "The Rising," which debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 2.09 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The tour in support of the set grossed $221.5 million from 121 shows reported to Billboard Boxscore.

As previously reported, Springsteen won a Grammy on Sunday for best solo rock vocal performance for the "Code of Silence," which was released on the 2003 collection "The Essential Bruce Springsteen."

Here is the track list for "Devils & Dust":

"Devils & Dust"
"All The Way Home"
"Reno"
"Long Time Comin'"
"Black Cowboys"
"Maria's Bed"
"Silver Palomino"
"Jesus Was an Only Son"
"Leah"
"The Hitter"
"All I'm Thinkin' About"
"Matamoras Banks"
 
In case you haven't seen it yet, here's the AP interview with Bruce. Definitely an acoustic tour in smaller venues like the last one, it seems. I hope a few members of the band join him. I could see Danny Federici on accordion and Soozie Tyrell on violin easily.


New Springsteen album due in April; tour to follow

NEW YORK (AP) — The seeds for Bruce Springsteen's new album Devils & Dust were sown nearly a decade ago, when the singer-songwriter launched his first-ever solo acoustic tour.

"I was so excited after playing on that tour, I'd get off the stage and go write," Springsteen told The Associated Press about those 1995-96 dates. "Then I put those songs on the shelf for a while, until I had a chance to revisit them."

The visit is now complete, with a 12-song album due in stores on April 26 — Springsteen's first release of all-new material since his Sept. 11-themed The Rising in July 2002. A tour was planned to follow the release, although Springsteen said it was unclear if he would perform alone or with a small band.

Two of the new album's songs, The Hitter and Long Time Comin', were actually written and performed on The Ghost of Tom Joad tour. But not all the material dates back that far; the title track was written around the start of the war in Iraq, Springsteen said.

"It works as a metaphor for all the music underneath it, the individual stories of people wrestling with their demons," Springsteen said of the title track. "A lot of it is set in the west, in what feels like a rural setting.

"It's about people working through their confusions, sometimes well and sometimes tragically," he said in a telephone interview earlier this week.

Springsteen opted to record without the E Street Band for Devils & Dust. The core group was Springsteen on guitar and other instruments, producer Brendan O'Brien on bass and drummer Steve Jordan, who had produced last year's 23rd Street Lullaby album by Springsteen's wife, Patti Scialfa.

In keeping with his pattern of recording, the new album is a quieter, more acoustic affair than The Rising. Springsteen, now 55, has alternated between large-scale rock records followed by more introspective material since 1982's Nebraska was released two years after The River.

Pedal steel guitar, harmonica and violin fill in the sparse, rootsy arrangements. Springsteen, who says his vocal range has expanded with age, provides some higher-pitched vocals on the track All I'm Thinking About.

Springsteen said the accompanying tour would be an acoustic affair whether he performs alone or with a band, targeting theaters and smaller venues.

"I was actually signed as an acoustic act, and I've always enjoyed playing acoustic," Springsteen said. "Even when I was in a band, back in my early days, I was always writing songs that weren't meant for the band."
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Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
 
I would have prefered another album with the E Street Band. My mum has got the Live DVD from 2002 in Spain and it is excellent. He is ace live and that dvd is so good, so I was hoping for a tour like that again with the band. But hey I'll still check this album out :wink:
 
Wait untill you hear Long Time Coming, It's Bruce at his very best. Longtime fans have been waiting for this to be released for years.
 
Backstreets.com stated that this new album will have a parental advisory sticker. Who would've thought...

It will also be released as a dual disc, with the DVD portion containing acoustic versions of several songs. Sound good to me! :)
 
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