Bruce Springsteen Forum

Bruce Brings The Rock For New Album

The fact that Bruce Springsteen has been recording a new album at Southern Tracks Studios with members of The E Street Band is one of the worst kept secrets in rock. The man has been sighted all over town and, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, recently stopped by local record shop and a bookstore to pick up some music related items — including a CD by the Dropkick Murphys, a Jimi Hendrix DVD and a Joe Strummer biography. The article says he was buying them for his kids, but we think that after The Seeger Sessions and Devils and Dust he’s trying to brush up on his rock & roll for his new album. There’s nothing resembling an official word at this point, but all signs point to the album coming out around September with a worldwide E Street Band tour to follow. With Max Weinberg heading to 11:30 with Conan O’Brian in 2009 and Clarence Clemons five years away from the big seven-oh this could very well be the final tour with the full band.
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BRUUUCE BACK BUYING, MAYBE MAKING MUSIC

We’re going to venture out on a fairly sturdy limb here and theorize that Bruce Springsteen is back in Atlanta and potentially recording a new album project.

The facts that support this?

Well specifically, Wax ‘N Facts, the iconic record emporium in Little Five Points reported a visit by the equally iconic rocker this week. His tour guide? None other than Swimming Pool Q’s rock legend Jeff Calder who doubles as a veteran knob twister at Southern Tracks recording studios where Springsteen and producer Brendan O’Brien holed up back in 2002 to record “The Rising,” Springsteen’s critically acclaimed musical response to September 11.

Calder brought Bruuuce in to buy some music for his kids, manager Sean Bourne told Buzz. Among the purchases: The Dropkick Murphys CD and a Jimi Hendrix DVD (days earlier, incidentally, R&B singer-songwriter India Arie was hanging out in the store, looking for the soundtrack to “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf”).

Later, Springsteen and Calder were spotted checking out tomes at the nearby A Cappella Books. While owner Frank Reiss confirmed Thursday that Springsteen “bought a nice stack of books,” Reiss was careful to maintain the privacy of his A-list customer. Reiss would say only that most of his purchases were about music and that he “ventured into our history section.” The only title Reiss would specifically namedrop was the well-reviewed Clash bio “Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer” by Chris Salewicz that first hit stores last month.
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