Album · 2009
Working on a Dream
Working on a Dream is an album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 2009 on Columbia, with 13 tracks.
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13 tracks · 52 min
Album · 2009
Working on a Dream is an album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 2009 on Columbia, with 13 tracks.
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13 tracks · 52 min
Working on a Dream is the 16th studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released on January 27, 2009 through Columbia Records. It has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide, with over 585,000 in the United States as of September 2010. The album was officially announced, along with a track listing, on November 17, 2008. The album first began selling in Germany and Ireland, on January 23. The album came out of songwriting and recording that Springsteen continued with towards the close of his previous work, 2007's Magic, as the band worked on a video for one of that album's songs. "What Love Can Do" was written, in Springsteen's words, as a "love in the time of Bush" meditation, but felt like the start of something new rather than a candidate for Magic. Encouraged by his 2000s producer Brendan O'Brien, Springsteen decided to start work on a new album and wrote "This Life," "My Lucky Day," "Life Itself," "Good Eye," and "Tomorrow Never Knows" during the next week. They were then recorded with the E Street Band members during breaks on their 2007–2008 Magic Tour, with most being finished in just a few takes. This all reflected a faster pace of producing new music than Springsteen had been …