Bruce Springsteen Confirms New Solo Album

Currently on tour with The E Street Band performing his classic LP The River each night in its entirety, Bruce Springsteen recently sat for an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in which he disclosed a new solo album. The Boss did not reveal much about the fully-recorded new record – including when it might be released.

Speaking to David Fricke, Springsteen revealed he began work on the new solo album before 2012’s Wrecking Ball and returned to the material after the release of 2014’s High Hopes. Recording of the album was completed at the beginning of last summer. Noting, “It’s unusual to have a record that you’re sitting on,” Springsteen mentioned he plans to issue the album during the “next opening I have.”

Springsteen is currently on a break from composing new material, but shared this exchange with Fricke regarding his process for shaping new songs:

What is the thing that gets you started?

Writing is like being hungry. It’s a drive — a primal drive. It’s not anything else. When it’s there, you do it. Usually, you’re trying to figure something out, make sense of some part of your life, something you’re seeing, something you’re experiencing, the world. “Wow, I need to contextualize this experience.” That’s when the hunger comes up, and you find yourself searching, searching, searching. That’s when songs tend to come.

Head over to Rolling Stone to read the entire informative chat.