Bruce Springsteen has announced a new studio album titled Only The Strong Survive, set for release on November 11th via Columbia records. The 21st studio album from Springsteen will be a collection of fifteen soul music classics featuring lead vocals from Springsteen as well as guest vocals by Sam Moore and of course contributions from The E Street Horns with string arrangements by Rob Mathes, and backing vocals by Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Michelle Moore, Curtis King Jr., Dennis Collins and Fonzi Thornton.
Springsteen commented: “I wanted to make an album where I just sang. And what better music to work with than the great American songbook of the Sixties and Seventies? I’ve taken my inspiration from Levi Stubbs, David Ruffin, Jimmy Ruffin, the Iceman Jerry Butler, Diana Ross, Dobie Gray and Scott Walker, among many others. I’ve tried to do justice to them all—and to the fabulous writers of this glorious music. My goal is for the modern audience to experience its beauty and joy, just as I have since I first heard it. I hope you love listening to it as much as I loved making it.”
Check out one of the singles from the album, a cover of Do I Love You below:
Only The Strong Survive will mark Bruce Springsteen’s first studio album since 2020’s ‘Letter To You’ (Columbia Records) and is available to pre-order now.
Only The Strong Survive tracklist:
- Only the Strong Survive
- Soul Days feat. Sam Moore
- Nightshift
- Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
- The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
- Turn Back the Hands of Time
- When She Was My Girl
- Hey, Western Union Man
- I Wish It Would Rain
- Don’t Play That Song
- Any Other Way
- I Forgot to Be Your Lover feat. Sam Moore
- 7 Rooms of Gloom
- What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
- Someday We’ll Be Together
