HIgh Hopes 2XLP

Album Details

Bruce Springsteen will not rest. Fresh off his most critically acclaimed tour in nearly three decades, the Boss returns with a lightning rod of an album featuring Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello as well as contributions from dearly departed E Street Band members Clarence Clemons and Danny Federeci. The chart-topping High Hopes finds the Boss situated in a number of different musical settings and combing through unreleased material that has long been played in concert, performing new originals, and a handful of covers. This is no stopgap record but a vital effort every Springsteen fan will want to hear in analog. Morello joined Springsteen and the E Street Band on tour in Australia in March 2013 (sitting in for Steve Van Zandt) and became, as Springsteen says, "my muse, pushing the rest of this project to another level." Besides his guitar playing on the album, Morello also duets with Springsteen on "The Ghost of Tom Joad." Clemons, who passed away in 2011, and Federici, who passed away in 2008, appear on several songs of what Springsteen calls "some of our best unreleased material from the past decade."