MagicAufgenommen Frühling 2007 bis Sommer 2007 in den "Southern Tracks Studios in Altanta, GA". Veröffentlichungstermin: 02. Oktober 2007
Mitwirkende Künstler: Bruce Springsteen - Gitarre, Gesang, Mundharmonica
Roy Bittan - Keyboards, Klavier, Orgel
Clarence Clemons - Saxophon, Background Vocals
Danny Federici - Orgel
Nils Lofgren - Gitarre, Background Vocals
Patti Scialfa - Background Vocals
Garry Tallent - Bass
Steven van Zandt - Gitarre, Background Vocals
Max Weinberg - Schlagzeug
Soozie Tyrell - Geige, Background Vocals
Jeremy Chatzky - Bass
Daniel Laufer - Cello
Patrick Warren - Klavier
... und andere
Produktion: Brendan O'Brien - ausführender Produzent
Tracklist: Radio Nowhere
You'll Be Comin' Down
Livin' in the Future
Your Own Worst Enemy
Gypsy Biker
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
I'll Work for Your Love
Magic
Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Devil's Arcade
Terry's Song
Infos:Bruce Springsteen hat bereits während der "Devils & Dust Tour" im Jahre 2005 damit begonnen, Songs für ein neues E-Street Band Album zu schreiben.
"Long Walk Home" wurde als erster Song des neuen Albums am 11. November 2006 anlässlich eines Auftritts mit der "Seeger Session Band" in London gespielt.
Das Album wurde im Frühjahr 2006 in den Southern Tracks Studio in Atlanta aufgenommen. Produzent war wie schon bei "The Rising" Brendan O'Brien. Insgesamt wurden 20 Songs eingespielt.
Weitere Songs, die für das Album "Magic" bzw. während den Tourpausen in Bruce Springsteens eigenem Studio in Colts Neck, NJ eingespielt wurden:
- All God's Children
- Faithless
- God Sent You
- Goin' to California
- Where You Goin'?
- What Love Can Do
- Good Eye
- Queen of the Supermarket
- Kingdom of Day
- My Lucky Day
Springsteens Manager Jon Landau sagte in einem Interview:"Magic is a high energy rock CD. It's light on its feet, incredibly well played by Bruce and the members of the E Street Band, and, as always, has plenty to say. It's also immensely entertaining. 'Magic' is the third collaboration between Bruce and Brendan O'Brien and is a culmination of their very productive creative relationship."
Im Rolling Stones Magazin war ausserdem folgendes zu lesen:Late last year Bruce Springsteen invited producer Brendan O’Brien up to his New Jersey house to play him a batch of new songs he had been working on. “It was kind of surreal,” says O’Brien, who previously worked with Springsteen on 2002’s The Rising and 2005’s Devils and Dust. “We literally sat in his living room, he hands me a book of lyrics and he played me the songs on the guitar.” O’Brien then had the unenviable task of telling Bruce which songs worked, and which ones didn’t. “He gauges peoples reactions and I have to be as honest with him as I can,” O’Brien says. “Some of them had a certain voice that seemed to fit all together – and some didn’t have that same voice – so we decided which ones to pursue.” The songs that survived were taken down to Atlanta’s Southern Tracks Studios this March by O’Brien, Springsteen and the E Street Band. The resulting album, Magic, was recorded in eight weeks, and will be released on October 2nd.
The lead single will be “Radio Nowhere,” which O’Brien says changed very little from the version Springsteen played him at his house last year. “It’s a pretty straight-ahead rocker,” O’Brien says. “The most straightforward song I’ve heard him do in years.” “Long Walk Home,” which Springsteen debuted on tour last year with the Seeger Sessions Band, is an emotionally uplifting ballad that invokes 2002’s “My City In Ruins.” “That’s one of my favorite songs that he’s done in a long time,” says O’Brien. “It’s mournful, but also hopeful. It has very introspective verses and then he opens up lyrically as the song progresses. It hits me in a real great spot.” O’Brien describes the song “Living In The Future” as a “throwback to ‘Hungary Heart,’ an R&B thing.”
Recording with the E Street Band proved to be a logistical challenge, largely due to the fact that drummer Max Weinberg had to tape “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” during the week. Springsteen devoted weekdays to overdubbing and cutting vocal tracks, but each weekend a core group of E Streeters – Springsteen, Weinberg, bassist Gary Tallent and pianist Roy Bittan – would record the instrumental tracks. The other members of the E Street Band, including keyboard player Danny Federici and guitarists Steven Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren, were called in as needed to cut their parts. “It’s easier to manage the songs with less people,” O’Brien says. “Once we know what we’re doing, we brought the others in to do overdubs.”
But Springsteen insisted on being in the studio when Clarence Clemons cut his saxophone parts. “I appointed Bruce ‘senior vice president in charge of Clarence’s saxophone,’ ” O’Brien says. “There’s a whole dynamic there that spans decades. I don’t even get in the middle of it. I’m just a cheerleader.”
A world tour with the E Street Band will kick off right around the time Magic comes out, but no details have been released. “There’s songs that when we were recording them he would go, ‘I just know this song’s going to work great live,’ ” says O’Brien. “When it comes to being a bandleader and knowing what his audience wants, I think he’s one of the best ever.” (Quelle: Rolling Stone Magazin)