Bruce Springsteen Set To Release High Hopes In January

As frequent visitors to That Nashville Sound realize, we include a wide array of genres across our pages. And as country and rock continue to blend and homogenize, an artist like Bruce Springsteen moves more center on the radar. That's the same Bruce Springsteen that will be releasing a brand new album of covers and previously-cut-but-never-released songs called High Hopes that are near and dear to the artist's heart. The album will be out on Jan 14.

High Hopes finds Bruce Springsteen in a number of different musical settings, and includes the E Street Band members in various large and small combinations as well as guitarist Tom Morello on eight tracks. Besides Morello, the album also includes appearances on several songs by Clarence Clemons, who passed away in 2011, and Danny Federici, who passed away in 2008, on what Springsteen calls "some of our best unreleased material from the past decade." The album was recorded in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Australia and New York City and marks Springsteen's 18th studio album. As Bruce writes in the albums liner notes, "I felt they were among the best of my writing and deserved a proper studio recording." 

Rolling Stone describes the album this way:

High Hopes is a first for Springsteen: a studio album composed entirely of covers, outtakes and radically reimagined versions of fan-favorite songs from past albums and tours. High points include a cover of Seventies punk pioneers Suicide ("Dream Baby Dream"); songs he originally wrote for 2002's The Rising ("Harry's Place," "Down in the Hole"); and searing new takes of concert staples "The Ghost of Tom Joad" and "American Skin (41 Shots)." "The best way to describe this record is that's its a bit of an anomaly," says Springsteen. "But not much. I don't really work linearly like a lot of people do."

Springsteen has always written and recorded significantly more songs than can fit on to whatever album he's creating at the moment. "I have a lot of this music on a computer," he says. "I bring it out on the road to amuse myself. Very often, if I have nothing to do late at night I'll bring it up and look at different bodies of music."

High Hopes Track Listing:

1. High Hopes (Tim Scott McConnell) - featuring Tom Morello 
2. Harry's Place - featuring Tom Morello 
3. American Skin (41 Shots) - featuring Tom Morello 
4. Just Like Fire Would (Chris J. Bailey) - featuring Tom Morello 
5. Down In The Hole 
6. Heaven's Wall -featuring Tom Morello 
7. Frankie Fell In Love 
8. This Is Your Sword 
9. Hunter Of Invisible Game -featuring Tom Morello 
10. The Ghost of Tom Joad - duet with Tom Morello 
11. The Wall 
12. Dream Baby Dream (Martin Rev and Alan Vega) - featuring Tom Morello