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With a simple «Coming November 25», Bruce Springsteen announced yesterday in his website that «High Hopes» is coming. We take for granted it’s a single, and it’s an advance of what’s coming (a new album, possibly in mid-January). Several Sony Music websites across Europe have announced the song will be available for digital download on that date. The song, written by Tim Scott, was originally recorded in 1987, and re-recorded in 1990 with his band The Havalinas. Bruce recorded a version with The E Street Band in 1995, which was published in 1986 in the Blood Brothers EP that was accompanying the VHS release of the Blood Brothers documentary.

In recent weeks there has been lots of hearsay in the internet about a possible new Springsteen album coming soon. The release of the song «Dream Baby Dream» a few weeks back was the first hint to that, plus the continuous announcements of new shows in Australian, New Zealand and, more recently, South Africa.

Danish music magazine Wimp went yesterday another step ahead in that direction. The online magazine has published a photo of what looks like a first single off a new album, for the song «High Hopes». Bruce already recorded the Havalinas song back in 1995 for the Blood Brothers documentary and EP, and the song was performed in several shows in Australian in 2013. It was during the Australian tour that Bruce and the E Street Band visited a local studio to record some new material, and all seems to indicate (though at the moment this is pure speculation) that «High Hopes» was one of the songs recorded that day.

Wimp’s website announces Nov.19th as the release date for this song, and adds a link (that still doesn’t work) to hear a fragment of the tune. Next to it it says «The album is not released yet. The album launch is 11/25/2013». What does all of this mean? The Wimp website looks for real and not a scam so it’s probably indicating a new single is coming soon and album details will be revealed on Nov.25th. However, take it with a grain of salt.

Glen Hansard has been singing «Drive All Night» at his shows for several years, sometimes with the help of Eddie Vedder and Jake Clemons. Bruce himself invited Glen to sing the song onstage with him last July 27th in Kilkenny, Ireland, and it was a memorable moment.

Glen will released on November 26th an EP (vinyl + CD) titled «Drive All Night», which will of course include his studio version of the song, recorded with Jake Clemons, Joe Henry and Eddie Vedder.

The song can be heard now via streaming, courtesy of Anti Records.