Bruce Springsteen confirms new album High Hopes for 2014

Bruce Springsteen has used Twitter and Facebook to confirm that he will be releasing a new album, entitled High Hopes, in 2014. High Hopes is already available to order on iTunes, with an expected release date of January 13.

Springsteen has also revealed the tracklisting, which is a mixture of new material, covers and re-recorded versions of existing songs. The title track, which features Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello on guitar, is being released as a single on November 25.

Also on the album will be a re-recording of Springsteen’s own The Ghost of Tom Joad, which was the title track of his 1995 album; a cover of Suicide’s Dream Baby Dream; and a studio recording of American Skin (41 Shots), which has previously only been recorded live. American Skin (41 Shots) was inspired by the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Guinean immigrant in New York in 1999; Springsteen has recently performed the song live and dedicated it to Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old who was shot dead by George Zimmerman in 2012.

High Hopes is the first new album from The Boss since 2012’s Wrecking Ball, which was his eighth number one album in the UK.

Source: The Telegraph