Bruce Springsteen - Letter to You (October 23, 2020) Album

1. One Minute You’re Here
2. Letter To You
3. Burnin’ Train
4. Janey Needs A Shooter
5. Last Man Standing
6. The Power Of Prayer
7. House Of A Thousand Guitars
8. Rainmaker
9. If I Was The Priest
10. Ghosts
11. Song For Orphans
12. I’ll See You In My Dreams

 

hello!

 

oh hell ya

 

Lyrics for Rainmaker are floating out there, for those interested.

 

Western Stars was one of his best in years. Excited to hear this.

 

Very excited.

 

Can't wait for this.

 

The new song is good. But the band sounds GREAT.

 

Rolling Stone cover story with Brian Hiatt:
Ghosts, Guitars, and the E Street Shuffle

Lots of good info in here, but one thing I’m sure will have a lot of folks excited is about the context around the older songs he’s included:

Last year, Springsteen was working through his archives for a follow-up to his 1998 outtakes box set, Tracks, when he “sort of came across these songs.” There’s no particular message in their inclusion. He simply wanted to hear the band play them now, he says, “to be able to go back and sing in your adult voice but with ideas of your youth.… It was kind of insane fun, because the lyrics for all those songs were so completely crazy.”

He’s got “a lot of projects” in the works, including all of that work on his archives, which include various full “lost albums” along with more scattered outtakes. (Weinberg, for one, has been in the studio to overdub at least 40 old songs “in all different styles” over the past three years. “Any other artist would kill to get these songs,” the drummer says.) Some of these songs will appear on a second volume of Tracks, some perhaps in other formats. “There’s a lot of really good music left,” Springsteen says, noting that he enjoys collaborating with his former selves. “You just go back there. It’s not that hard. If I pull out something from 1980, or 1985, or 1970, it’s amazing how you can slip into that voice. It’s just sort of a headspace. All of those voices remain available to me, if I want to go to them.”

 

"letters to you" is kind of whatever for me, but the band does sound good.

 

Sign me up for a new volume of Tracks!

 

How is he not running out of material after The Promise, the remaster of The River, the third disc of The Essential, the first installment of Tracks...

 

I can’t fathom how many songs he wrote back in the day.

 

happy birthday king

 

"Ghosts" streaming now. it's got such a great E-Street chorus.

 

Much better than the title track imo

 

Yeah I like this one more than the title track

 

The title track was nice but kinda Bruce on autopilot. The big positive was how great the band sounded.

But Ghosts is wonderful. The piano break, the sax, the group vocals at the end. The whole thing just has that classic E Street sound that he very rarely touches anymore. Incredible. The band sounding this great has me really looking forward to what they do with the old songs. Janey Needs A Shooter is one of his best outtakes. Wrecking Ball and Western Stars felt like Bruce starting to reckon with his age and death and it seems like it's building to outright confrontation on Letter To You; figures it sounds like it's gonna be one of his most life-affirming albums.

 

Yeah Ghosts is much better than Letters.

 

Ghosts is a solid single. Much better than the title track!

 

very small pet peeve of mine is that apple music for whatever reason changed the album art for BTR to the book cover's art in the album display......when i play the actual album the real art comes up but.....still annoying AF its an iconic album cover how did they get that messed up?

 

Hell yeah, that’s a fucking Springsteen song.

 

New song rips

 

Excited for this.