noviembre 2008

Shore Fire media has issued a press release today announcing the release of a new Bruce Springsteen album (no news about touring, though):

Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Working On A Dream’ Set For January 27 Release On Columbia Records

Bruce Springsteen’s new album ‘Working on a Dream’ has been set for January 27 release on Columbia Records. ‘Working on a Dream’ was recorded with the E Street Band and features twelve new Springsteen compositions plus two bonus tracks. It is the fourth collaboration between Springsteen and Brendan O’Brien, who produced and mixed the album.

‘Working on a Dream’ Song Titles:

1. Outlaw Pete
2. My Lucky Day
3. Working On a Dream
4. Queen of the Supermarket
5. What Love Can Do
6. This Life
7. Good Eye
8. Tomorrow Never Knows
9. Life Itself
10. Kingdom of Days
11. Surprise, Surprise
12. The Last Carnival

Bonus tracks:
The Wrestler
A Night with the Jersey Devil

Bruce Springsteen said, «Towards the end of recording ‘Magic,’ excited by the return to pop production sounds, I continued writing. When my friend producer Brendan O’Brien heard the new songs, he said, ‘Let’s keep going.’ Over the course of the next year, that’s just what we did, recording with the E Street Band during the breaks on last year’s tour. I hope ‘Working on a Dream’ has caught the energy of the band fresh off the road from some of the most exciting shows we’ve ever done. All the songs were written quickly, we usually used one of our first few takes, and we all had a blast making this one from beginning to end.»

‘Working on a Dream’ is Bruce Springsteen’s twenty-fourth album and was recorded and mixed at Southern Tracks in Atlanta, GA with additional recording in New York City, Los Angeles, and New Jersey.

Believe it or not this is a new Bruce Springsteen song. In the middle of the audience’s roar and the player’s screams you can hear less than a minute of «Working on a dream», the new song from Bruce’s new… well, we don’t know if it’s part of a new album, a TV program or a special project, because no info at all was given anywhere. Not on TV last night, not on the official website, not thru a press release. A minute of new Springsteen music mixed with football images and some screaming. Art and sports mixed to promote… «something». The new song from an artist who refused millions of dollars to have one of his songs on a TV commercial, and now debuts a little piece of a new song in the midst of a football game. In our opinion, not a good way to show art.

See the video and judge for yourself:

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