Solo album

What does a solo album mean?  Since the E-Street Band doesn't get credit on the albums, are all of his albums solo albums?

Or is this a hint that it will be more like Nebraska or Devils and Dust?

DenverBrian posted:

What does a solo album mean?  Since the E-Street Band doesn't get credit on the albums, are all of his albums solo albums?

Or is this a hint that it will be more like Nebraska or Devils and Dust?

No, not at all like them.  The re have been quite a few articles posted here on the style.  If I remember correctly it was in the Vanity Fair piece.  Influenced by Glenn Campbell and Jimmy Webb.

I just went back and found it.  I hope this helps:

 “It’s a solo record, more of a singer-songwriter kind of record,” he said. Intriguingly, though, it does not follow in the spare, acoustic tradition of such previous solo albums as Nebraska, The Ghost of Tom Joad, and Devils & Dust. Rather, it’s inspired by a recent immersion in the 60s collaborations of the songwriter Jimmy Webb and the singer Glen Campbell, “pop records with a lot of strings and instrumentation,” he said. “So the record is somewhat in that vein.” That’s as much as he’ll reveal at the moment.

Thanks Oats. that actually sounds like it could be fantastic.

Very interesting. So in the vein of TOL then??

More details about the new record expected in a few month from the current Rolling Stone interview:

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Is that a different record than the one you almost finished before Wrecking Ball?
It's the record I wrote before Wrecking Ball but could not finish, and in attempting to finish it, I wrote Wrecking Ball. So the roots of the record go back quite a ways. Sometimes you have to wait for these puzzles to sort themselves out, and it can take years. I mean, I have a record that I've been working on that's 20 years old. That's just the way the process is working at the moment.

Interesting. Can't wait. Hope to get a few of the new (and old it would seem) songs in Jan/Feb. 

I just hope it's not the overproduced, overbaked casserole his last few records have been.    

In a new article from Rolling Stone Bruce goes into it just a little more.  He wrote a lot of this new album prior to Wrecking Ball.  Here are the pertinent parts:

You've said you have an album done that's influenced by Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb's collaborations.
I don't want to overemphasize the influences too much, because people may hear it and go, "What's that got to do with that?" But it was sort of a place where I found some inspiration.

See Mathias' post a couple above mine.

I listened to Wrecking Ball last night for the first time in a long time.  Some really good songs on there, but my god, it's an aural clusterfuck.  Just one example...there are more booms, whooshes, and thuds in 'This Depression' than a James Bond movie.    The whole record is so tricked-up it distracts the listener from some really good songs. 

I really wish he would write some good songs, get the core band in the studio, put Steve behind the board, and run the tapes.  Will probably never happen.