Bruce Springsteen carried out three acoustic tracks at this yr’s Stand Up For Heroes profit gig final night time (November 19).
The Boss carried out ‘Home Of A Thousand Guitars’ from his new ‘Letter To You’ album, with spouse and bandmate Patti Scialfa, in an empty New Jersey bar.
Springsteen additionally performed a solo-acoustic model of ‘Lengthy Stroll Residence’, from his 2007 album ‘Magic’ earlier than teaming up with Scialfa once more for a rendition of ‘I’ll See You In My Desires’ from his new album. You possibly can watch the efficiency under.
Different artists who carried out on the night time included Sheryl Crow and Brad Paisley.
Springsteen launched his twentieth studio album, ‘Letter To You’, final month. A film that accompanied the LP was additionally launched.
Reviewing ‘Letter To You’, NME known as the file “his finest work in 20 years,” writing: “A robust synthesis of previous and current, ‘Letter To You’ exhibits us the energy that may be present in sorrow.”
In the meantime, the Boss just lately became the first artist to have a Top Five album in each of the last six decades.
Springsteen scored two Prime 5 albums on the Billboard Sizzling 200 within the Nineteen Seventies, first with ‘Born To Run’ and later with ‘Darkness On The Edge Of City’. Within the ‘80s, he hit the higher ranges of the chart with the Quantity One album ‘The River’, together with ‘Nebraska’, ‘Born In The USA’, ‘Bruce Springsteen & The E Avenue Band 1975-1985’, and ‘Tunnel Of Love’.
The ‘90s, in the meantime, noticed him rating a Quantity Two and Quantity Three album with ‘Human Contact’ and ‘Fortunate City’ respectively, and a Quantity One together with his 1995 ‘Best Hits’ compilation. A decade later, ‘The Rising’, ‘Devils & Mud’, ‘We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Periods’, ‘Magic’ and ‘Working On A Dream’ all charted throughout the Prime 5.
Most just lately, he achieved 4 Prime Fives within the 2010s, together with his most up-to-date – 2019’s ‘Western Stars’ whereas ‘Letter To You’ entered the Billboard Sizzling 200 at Quantity Two to finish the achievement.