Back in January, Bruce Springsteen appeared on SiriusXM's E Street Radio, saying "I have some projects coming up this year that I won’t tell because it’s going to be a secret then a big surprise, but I do have things to keep me busy this year that will give the fans something to bide their time with." It looks like one of those things is a new album and it will be out "soon."
Bruce is the 2021 recipient of the Woody Guthrie Prize, and Stereogum notes that last night he accepted the award via a livestream for Woody Guthrie Center website members, where he talked about Guthrie's influence and performed a few songs: Woody's “Tom Joad” and “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos),” as well as his own “Across the Border” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad."