
Album · 2007
Magic
Magic is an album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 2007 on Columbia, with 12 tracks.
- 12
- Tracks
- 48 min
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12 tracks · 48 min
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Magic is the fifteenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 2007 on Columbia Records. It was his first with the E Street Band since The Rising in 2002. The album was #2 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007. Magic was announced on August 16, 2007, following months of fevered recording speculation, and weeks of equally fevered release speculation, among the Springsteen faithful. Of the album's tracks, "Long Walk Home" had been previously heard once, late on the 2006 Sessions Band Tour; the rest were new. Most of those were written by the end of 2006; Springsteen allowed producer Brendan O'Brien (returning for a role he had for The Rising and 2005's Devils & Dust) to pick the ones that worked the best. Recording began at Southern Tracks Recording Studio in Atlanta over a period of two months beginning March 2007. It was complicated by the band members' schedules, and especially drummer Max Weinberg's weekday commitments to taping Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The band did not record as a unit: rather, during the week Springsteen worked on vocal tracks and production; on weekends the core band of Weinberg, bassist Garry Tallent, and pianist Roy Bittan flew do…