Springsteen Releasing "Letter to You"

Here is some good news for 2020: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are releasing a new studio album, Letter to You. Springsteen also just released the title track and video.

According to the announcement for Springsteen’s twentieth studio album, it is a “rock album fueled by the band’s heart-stopping, house-rocking signature sound.” The album was recorded at Springsteen’s home studio in New Jersey.

Springsteen explained further about the album. “I love the sound of the E Street Band playing completely live in the studio, in a way we’ve never done before, and with no overdubs. We made the album in only five days, and it turned out to be one of the greatest recording experiences I’ve ever had.”

Letter to You includes nine new songs written by Springsteen, plus three previously unreleased songs from the 1970s. The track list is: “One Minute You’re Here,” “Letter To You,” “Burnin’ Train,” “Janey Needs A Shooter,” “Last Man Standing,” “The Power Of Prayer,” “House Of A Thousand Guitars,” “Rainmaker,” “If I Was The Priest,” “Ghosts,” :Song For Orphans,” and “I’ll See You In My Dreams.”

From my recollection of Springsteen’s unreleased back catalog, the three songs from the 1970s appearing on the new album are “Janey Needs a Shooter,” “If I Was the Priest,” and “Song for Orphans.”

The new black-and-white video for the title track “Letter to You” features Bruce and the E Street Band in the studio. The lyrics reveal an elder statesman of rock looking back on how his songs were all letters to his listeners. Check it out.

In my letter to you,
I took all my fears and doubts;
In my letter to you,
All the hard things I found out,
In my letter to you,
All that I found true,
And I sent in in my letter to you.