Bruce Springsteen Confirms He Wrote An Album For E Street Band With Tour Expected

Bruce Springsteen revealed he recently wrote an album’s worth of material for The E Street Band, which he expects to lead to the group’s first tour since 2017. Springsteen confirmed the news on Sunday night during a chat with filmmaker Martin Scorsese in Hollywood.

Here’s what The Boss said as per Variety’s report:

“You have to capture a little piece of the divine. And it can come in many, many forms. But whenever I really have written something that I felt has some quality to it, there’s always that little piece of ‘I’m not exactly sure where that came from. I know how I got here or how I got there, but…’

“It’s like I’ve spent about seven years without writing anything for the band. I couldn’t write anything for the band. And I said, ‘Well, of course … you’ll never be able to do that again!’ And it’s a trick every time you do it, you know? But it’s a trick that, because of that fact that you can’t explain, cannot be self-consciously duplicated. It has to come to you in inspiration.

“And then about a month or so ago, I wrote almost an album’s worth of material for the band. And it came out of just… I mean, I know where it came from, but at the same time, it just came out of almost nowhere. And it was good, you know. I had about two weeks of those little daily visitations, and it was so nice. It makes you so happy. You go, ‘F—, I’m not f—ed, all right? There’ll be another tour!”

Bruce Springsteen has a solo album, Western Stars due on June 14. Springsteen spent most of 2017 and 2018 performing on Broadway. The last Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band show took place on February 25, 2017 at Mt. Smart Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand to end the Australian/New Zealand leg of The River Tour.

[Hat Tip – Consequence of Sound]