"Working on a Dream" to be released January 27th

After months of rumors about a new Bruce Springsteen album it has finally been confirmed.

Little is really known about the new album. The title song, "Working on a Dream" was premiered during an Obama rally right before the election in an acoustic form with his wife and E-Street Band member, Patti Scialfa. This past Sunday, the song was supposed to be "premiered" on the halftime of NBC's Sunday Night Football. What we got instead was this: an obvious chop-up of the song that robs it of any potential.

To be included on the new album, though, are two bonus tracks. Here is a really poor sound quality version of "The Wrestler", which is apparently going to be featured over the credits of the upcoming film of the same name, starring Mickey Rourke. The other bonus track, "A Night with the Jersey Devil" was released Halloween weekend on brucespringsteen.net as a a "treat". I doubt any other part of the album will sound like this, but it still is something fun to listen to and look at.



No word yet on an upcoming tour, but Bruce and the E-Street Band will be playing halftime of Super Bowl XLIII on February 1st. Rumors have been circulating for months that a tour will be kicked off with the Super Bowl appearance, first in Europe and then back in the USA. All reports have said it will end before June 1st, 2009, as that is the date of Conan O'Brien's new time slot on NBC with E-Street Band drummer Max Weinberg and the Max Weinberg 7. Check back here for any updates.