Bruce Springsteen<\/a> has announced first new studio album in five years, Western Stars<\/em>, which will be released via Columbia Records on June 14th. The first song to be taken from the album, \u2018Hello Sunshine\u2019, is available now<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n The album was recorded primarily at Springsteen\u2019s home studio in New Jersey, with additional recording in California and New York. The songs encompass a sweeping range of American themes: highways and desert spaces, isolation and community and the permanence of home and hope.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis record is a return to my solo recordings featuring character-driven songs and sweeping, cinematic orchestral arrangements,\u201d says Springsteen. “It’s a jewel box of a record.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bruce Springsteen\u2019s recording career spans over 40 years, beginning with 1973’s Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ.<\/em> He has received a host of awards including twenty Grammys, an Oscar and a Tony, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Springsteen\u2019s memoir Born to Run <\/em>and its companion album Chapter and Verse<\/em> were released in September 2016, and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2016. His historic 236-show run of Springsteen on Broadway from October 2017 to December 2018 also yielded an accompanying soundtrack album and Netflix special.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n Western Stars<\/em> is available for pre-order now<\/a>.
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