Bruce Springsteen Releases a Surprise Live Album

Bruce Springsteen. Photo by REX/Shutterstock (9100733eg)

Surprising fans, rock legend Bruce Springsteen has just released a new album.

Bridge School is a live album that includes 10 tracks recorded during his 1986 acoustic show at Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit Concert at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California.

The new album includes an acappella cover to “You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)” and an acoustic version of “Born in the USA” with Young, as well as Springsteen’s bandmates David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Stephen Stills supplying the harmonies and instrumental accompaniment.

The audio is mostly taken from the original soundboard recording of the show. Some sections were missing from the master tapes and were replaced by alternate and fan recordings.

You can purchase the new album on CD and digitally, and the artist is donating 2 dollars from each purchase to the Bridge School.

Last year Springsteen released an official recording of his infamous performance at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles in 1978, a show during which he jumped from a 10-ft.-high balcony onto a piano.