"I decided to do something that I've never done before, to make vocal-centric music, to challenge my voice a bit
. "
Two years after
Letter to You,
Bruce Springsteen announces the release of a new project, called
Only The Strong Survive
, on November 11, 2022. An album of 15 covers of soul and R&B classics recorded during confinement.
In a video posted on his social networks Thursday, September 29, the 73-year-old rocker, leaning against the hood of a convertible car, explains that this project challenges his voice:
"I have worked all my life with my voice in the service of my songs, confined by my arrangements, by my melodies, by my compositions... my voice always came in second, third or fourth position”
.
A project different from the 20 previous ones, which allowed the musician to sell more than 150 million records worldwide and to sell his catalog of songs to the Sony Music label in 2021 for the sum of 500 million dollars.
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Usually author of his songs, Bruce Springsteen lets himself be carried away this time by the most popular texts of the American soul repertoire,
"one of the most beautiful vocal music ever written and recorded"
he believes.
It includes titles by Smokey Robinson, David Ruffin, Jerry Butler, Levi Stubbs, Sam Moore, Tyrone Davis, William Bell, Diana Ross... All brought together in an album that Le Boss had a lot of fun recording: "
I fell in love with all those great songs, writers, and singers all over again, all still underrated in my opinion, and rediscovered, through this project, the power of my own voice
. ”
To make his fans wait until November 11, Bruce Springsteen unveiled Thursday, September 29 a first extract from
Only The Strong Survives
: a cover of
Do I Love You (Indeed I do)
by Frank Wilson, from the legendary soul music label Motown .
The singer and musician will be in concert at La Défense Arena in Paris on May 13 and 15, 2023.
