The Boss is back, baby!
After a few years of rumors swirling about Bruce Springsteen creating another masterpiece with his longtime E-Street Band, it’s happening. The Hall Of Fame-inducted backing band reunited with the Boss fairly recently to whip together another heart-stoppin’, hard rockin’, history makin’ record in just five days.
Letter To You, dubbed as Bruce’s 20th studio album, will drop October 23, the one month anniversary of his impending 71st birthday. Presumptuously, this will be the first E-Street Band album to not feature a single contribution from saxophone god Clarence “Big Man” Clemons, who died of a stroke in 2011, and the second without Danny Federici, who passed in 2008.
Along with this morning’s announcement of the album came its titular single, as well as a music video starring just about all the current E-Streeters. Three of the twelve tracks to be featured on the album will be rerecorded, revamped versions of well-known (to die hards, anyway) deep cuts, “If I Were The Priest,” “Janey Needs A Shooter,” and “Song For Orphans.”
Letter To You is the first time E-Street is playing together since the early 2017 conclusion of their critically acclaimed The River World Tour. If COVID could kindly piss off already, we’ll most likely get a tour in support of the record. E-Street legend Little Steven declared on Twitter that the band is his number one priority in 2021, so anything’s possible.
Hopefully, Bruce still has the same energy, crotch slides, and 3-and-a-half-hour shows in him. After all, it has been a few years.
Josh Bradley Live 