On July 30th 2002 Springsteen released his latest album, "The Rising." It is Bruce’s first collaboration with the full E-Street Band since 1984 (BITUSA), his first full new material album since 1995 (TGOTJ) and his first rock release since the 1992 albums "Human Touch" and "Lucky Town". Bruce worked with a new producer, Brendan O'Brien of Pearl Jam fame, and credited Brendan with speeding up the recording process.
Springsteen, who performed at several post-Sept. 11 benefits, said he wrote all but two of the 15 new songs on the album after the terrorist attacks that killed more than 3,000 people. "The songs I wrote sort of occur in that context," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's more of an emotional feeling that I felt - and that I felt was in the air at that time. Some songs, deal more directly with it than others, but the stories all happen in a post-Sept. 11 context. If you were writing at that point, it's in everything in some fashion."
"My City of Ruins" (originally recorded about Asbury Park, NJ) was performed by Springsteen on the national telethon for Sept. 11 victims. "Further On (Up the Road)" was an unreleased track that Springsteen had performed live is also included on the album.
Of working with "The E-Street Band" again, Bruce said
"It's a very powerful sound, just the intensity I wanted to capture doing anything with the band again,'' he said. ``The guys are playing better than they did 15 years ago. There's a confidence."
Springsteen said the sessions were somewhat similar to their 1975 work on the classic "Born To Run" with the band playing live in the studio for the basic track and other parts added later.
"The sound is very recognizable and very different. If you have all of our other records, you don't have this one. We picked up the level of intensity. I can't wait for people to hear this record."
Upon release of the album, it quickly jumped to number one in the charts. It would produce three singles "The Rising", "Lonesome Day" and "Waitin' On A Sunny Day". A world tour - "The Rising Tour" followed and stretched out over 14 months during 2002-2003.
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