New EP

American Beauty is due April 26th for Record Store Day.

Bruce's 12-inch vinyl disc will feature four previously unavailable songs - American Beauty, Mary Mary, Hurry Up Sundown and Hey Blue Eyes.

The songs were recorded during the same sessions that yielded Springsteen's current studio album, High Hopes. The releae will only be available in local record stores as part of Record Store Day on April 26.

Cool, looking forward to it.

A DVD/Blu-ray of the 2013 MusiCares Person of the Year concert is also coming:

tracklist:

1. "Adam Raised a Cain" Performed by Alabama Shakes
2. "Because the Night" Performed by Patti Smith
3. "Atlantic City" Performed by Natalie Maines, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite
4. "American Land" Performed by Ken Casey
5. "My City of Ruins" Performed by Mavis Staples and Zac Brown
6. "I'm On Fire" Performed by Mumford and Sons
7. "American Skin (41 Shots)" Performed by Jackson Browne and Tom Morello
8. "My Hometown" Performed by Emmylou Harris
9. "One Step Up" Performed by Kenny Chesney
10. "Streets of Philadelphia" Performed by Elton John
11. "Hungry Heart" Performed by Juanes
12. "Tougher Than the Rest" Performed by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
13. "The Ghost of Tom Joad" Performed by Jim James and Tom Morello
14. "Dancing in the Dark" Performed by John Legend
15. "Lonesome Day" Performed by Sting
16. "Born in the U.S.A." Performed by Neil Young with Crazy Horse
17. "We Take Care of Our Own" Performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
18. "Death to My Hometown" Performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
19. "Thunder Road" Performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
20. "Born to Run" Performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
21. "Glory Days" Performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band & cast ensemble

Glad to see Alabama Shakes is included - I think they could do a great job on Adam Raised a Cain. I really like this band - one of my favorite new bands - they really rock.

So, I guess a few of you intend to buy the Brisbane show (myself included) but wouldn't it be better if everyone who intends to buy Brisbane buys a different show instead so that we could share them with eachother and save some money?

I got the MP3-versions of February 11 and 12 and the quality isn't that impressive, yet I would like to buy the FLAC-version of Brisbane.

What do you guys think about it? All who intend to buy, buy a different show and then share amongst the ones who all bought 1 show in FLAC? Might be an idea.

I salute you,
TS

Rumour is that he will be in Europe in July, for example July 6th in Hamburg according to BILD newspaper.

I am from this moment on the proud owner of the (FLAC) recording of Brisbane. If anyone fancies a trade I am sure we can work something out :)

I salute you,
TS

cover art:

http://images.artistdirect.com/Image...anbeauty_4.jpg

A bit of random Bruceness happened this week:

I was at a professional development course for work on Thursday working with software to aid children with limited or no verbal communication. It was US based software so at one point we were being shown how to create our own "buttons" that would be more relevant to the kids we teach.

We'd to make a button for Irn-Bru. The picture gallery on this software does a sort of auto find / correct thing and when you typed in Bru a little cartoon picture of Bruce popped up :D


Later that night my band was doing a rehearsal for a gig we have coming up on a bus (as in an actual moving bus as it does its route :D ) anyways we're missing a bunch of key members (we might be forced to go out as only a 15 piece :/ :D yes we are pretty ridiculous) so I was put forward to sing for the 1st time. The tune is Weight Ghost and I thought I did a not bad take on it. Later on in the Facebook one of the girls in the band posted saying I sang very Bruce like.

Bit better than the recording engineer who told me I sounded like Tom Petty years ago.

Today is finally the day when E Street Band is inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame!!!

About time! :)

I salute you,
TS

p.s.
I see the USA has gotten the most standard shows of the High Hopes tour so far. Did they play on festivals in Dallas and Cincinnati? That would explain the setlists a bit.