High Hopes
Bruce Springsteen On His New Album High Hopes : I was working on a record of some of our best unreleased material from the past decade when Tom Morello (sitting in for Steve during the Australian leg of our tour) suggested we ought to add “High Hopes” to our live set. I had cut “High Hopes,” a song by Tim Scott McConnell of the LA based Havalinas, in the 90′s. We worked it up in our Aussie rehearsals and Tom then proceeded to burn the house down with it. We re-cut it mid tour at Studios 301 in Sydney along with “Just Like Fire Would,” a song from one of my favorite early Australian punk bands, The Saints (check out “I’m Stranded ”). Tom and his guitar became my muse, pushing the rest of this project to another level. Thanks for the inspiration Tom. Some of these songs, “American Skin” and “Ghost of Tom Joad,” you’ ll be familiar with from our live versions. I felt they were among the best of...
