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You can call it a late Christmas present for the Bruce Springsteen fan in your life.

The Boss's new album, titled High Hopes, will be out on January 14.

Springsteen's first studio album since last year's Wrecking Ball will feature 12 tracks in all, including what Springsteen in the liner notes calls "a proper studio recording" of live staples "American Skin" and "The Ghost of Tom Joad."

Springsteen calls many of the tracks on High Hopes, "some of our best unreleased material from the past decade." That material includes contributions on several tracks by late E Street Band members Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici.

Guitarist Tom Morello, who sat in for Steve Van Zandt during the E Street Band's Australian tour last March, is featured on eight of the tracks, and suggested adding "High Hopes" -- a cover of the song by the LA-based band Havalinas -- to the live set. You can watch a video for "High Hopes" now on Springsteen's YouTube channel.

High Hopes, the album, is available for pre-order now at Amazon.com.


Here's the track list:

"High Hopes" (Tim Scott McConnell) -- featuring Tom Morello
"Harry’s Place" -- featuring Tom Morello
"American Skin (41 Shots)" -- featuring Tom Morello
"Just Like Fire Would" (Chris J. Bailey) -- featuring Tom Morello
"Down In The Hole"
"Heaven’s Wall" -- featuring Tom Morello
"Frankie Fell In Love"
"This Is Your Sword"
"Hunter Of Invisible Game" -- featuring Tom Morello
"The Ghost of Tom Joad" -- duet with Tom Morello
"The Wall"
"Dream Baby Dream" (Martin Rev and Alan Vega) -- featuring Tom Morello

[Edited 1/6/14 11:23am]

Looks like it's really a Bruce Springsteen featuring Tom Morello CD.

Springteen's cover of the title track.

Huzzah!

Bruce Springsteen Sheds Light on High Hopes and the Possibility of US Concerts in 2014
December 18th


Late at night, while he's on tour, Bruce Springsteen says he'll check out the backlog of music he's stored on his computer. There's plenty of unfinished material waiting for him at home, too.

"When I go into my studio, I'm surrounded by all my music that I haven't released," Springsteen tells Rolling Stone. "I wait to see what's going to speak to me."

What spoke to him recently was an assortment of originals and covers he says "were relatively current and had a similar sound picture," so Springsteen revisited and recorded a batch for his new album, High Hopes, due January 14.

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, who since 2008 has been appearing on stage with Springsteen, performs on six of the High Hopes tracks.

"He jolted those songs into the now," Springsteen says. "He's one of the few guitarists that creates a world by himself. It's like The Edge or Pete Townshend or Johnny Marr."

Morello will join Springsteen and the E Street Band for a tour that begins January 26 in South Africa and also includes dates in Australia and New Zealand.

As for U.S. concert run in 2014, Springsteen says, "I don't want to say 'yes' because I don't want to disappoint people, but I certainly don't want to rule it out, either. We're looking closely out at since there's places we missed on the last tour."

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If you buy it from Amazon right now, you get a bonus DVD of Bruce and the band performing the entire "Born in the USA" album!

http://www.amazon.com/Hop...pringsteen

Got that right.

Got that right.

RodeoSchro said:

If you buy it from Amazon right now, you get a bonus DVD of Bruce and the band performing the entire "Born in the USA" album!

http://www.amazon.com/Hop...pringsteen

Ooooh, yeah! I'm all over the Amazon exclusive. Thanks, man.

Oops! Amazon erroneously uploaded the album the other day. As the result of early availability, fans paid for the downloads and posted songs on file-sharing sites.

Yep, it's leaked all over the interwebs now.

his last three albums have been hopelessly preachy/average...

JoeTyler said:

his last three albums have been hopelessly preachy/average...

THIS times 1,000. I'm a huge nerd for his music. But, to me he hasn't been great, since The Rising. Magic was ok, Working On A Dream was boring, Wrecking Ball had some great tracks... the rest were shit.

I don't see how Rolling Stone can give each one of those albums 5 stars. That just proves they will give a goof rating to any old rocker.

Yeah I agree, his last 3 albums just didn't do it for me. "Wrecking Ball" just bored me and left me depressed.

Gunsnhalen said:

I'm glad to see a studio version of American Skin. Hopefully Brucey gets his game back, Wrecking Ball wasn't as good as it could have been.

I really liked most of Wrecking Ball... That being said, they were much better in the live concert. It will be interesting to see what he does with this album... Don't know if I will like it as much as Wrecking Ball...

The Boss is streaming the new album online, via Stereogum!

Audio - High Hopes album

Rolling Stone's New Q & A with Springsteen.

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I'd be all over a cover album of rock from the 50's and 60's. He should consider one.

He's on Fallon tonight!

Bruce Springsteen to Offer Instant Concert Downloads

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