Bruce Springsteen Album, Working On A Dream

2009 Album Features My Lucky Day, The Wrestler and the E Street Band

Jan 20, 2009

New Bruce Springsteen album, Working on a Dream, released with E Street Band delivering both pure pop on "My Lucky Day" and acoustic masterpiece on "The Wrestler."

Announced in November 2008, Bruce Springsteen's 16th studio album released on 27 January 2009. Working on a Dream, a 2000s pop-rock production, follows in the footsteps of 2007's Magic. Delivered in a variety of styles, this Bruce Springsteen album features hits "Working on a Dream" and "My Lucky Day." Another standout, "The Wrestler," has received an Emmy nomination, and a win at the 2009 Golden Globes.

Recorded with the E Street Band throughout 2007 and 2008, Working on a Dream is a stylistically diverse album. It harkens to Springsteen's early story-telling days with "Outlaw Pete." It recalls Springsteen's recent acoustic endeavors, with "Tommorow Never Knows," and combines both styles, on "Queen of the Supermarket."

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street BandThis Bruce Springsteen album employs much of the diversity that made the E Street Band a success for the past 35 years. Bringing together the instrumental versatility of past albums, with the songwriting prowess of Bruce Springsteen, the album is a work of originality. Perhaps echoing past release Magic, the new album Working on the Dream is alike in tone, but more optimistic in mood.

Hit Singles: "Working on a Dream," "My Lucky Day" and "The Wrestler"The 2009 Bruce Springsteen album, with the E Street Band, features the first single "Working on a Dream." Featured in numerous pro-Barack Obama celebrations, the song was performed by Springsteen two days before the 20 January inaguration of Obama at the Lincoln Memorial. "Working on a Dream" is an upbeat song in the form of many Springsteen debut singles.

"The Wrestler," the second single from Working on a Dream, follows in the tradition of other Springsteen movie songs, "Dead Man Walking" and "Streets of Philadelphia." Featured in the film The Wrestler, the song is an acoustic ballad reminiscent of 2005's Devils and Dust. The thrid single from Working on a Dream is "My Lucky Day," a pop rocker heavy on E Street Band keyboards and drums.

"Outlaw Pete" and "Queen of the Supermarket"One standout from this Bruce Springsteen album is the album's lead-off song, "Outlaw Pete." The longest song on Working on a Dream, "Outlaw Pete" brings to life Springsteen's folk roots borrowed from Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie.

It also combines the storytelling that Springsteen has become famous for. "Outlaw Pete" recalls memories of "Jungleland" and "Incident on 57th Street" from past Bruce Springsteen albums. It features the lyric, "He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail / At six months old he already did three months in jail / He robbed a bank in his diapers and his little bare baby feet / All he said was 'Folks, my name is Outlaw Pete.'"

"Queen of the Supermarket" shines as one of the diverse and hopeful songs from Working on a Dream. A metaphor for life and love set in a supermarket, the song features the lyric, "Where aisles and aisles of dreams await you / The cool promise of ecstacy fills the air / At the end of each day she's waiting there / I'm in love with a queen of the supermarket."

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