Bruce Springsteen Album 'Wrecking Ball' Set for March 6 Release

Bruce Springsteen’s 17^th studio album Wrecking Ball is expected to be his angriest. But with its material incorporated into the Boss’ setlists since the late 1990s and the first single just released, when is the actual album going to come out? Announced today, the release will hit stores on March 6 in standard and deluxe editions. Listeners choosing the latter get bonus tracks, artwork, and photographs.

With 11 tracks, Wrecking Ball is produced by Ron Aniello with Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau. In a statement, Landau said about the album: "Bruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The lyrics tell a story you can't hear anywhere else, and the music is his most innovative of recent years. The writing is some of the best of his career and both veteran fans and those who are new to Bruce will find much to love on 'Wrecking Ball.'"

Although single “We Take Care of Our Own” has hit the airwaves, a handful of Wrecking’s tracks have been part of Springsteen’s live sets as long ago as the late-‘90s, including “American Land” and “Land of Hopes and Dreams.” The full tracklist is:

1. We Take Care of Our Own
2. Easy Money
3. Shackled and Drawn
4. Jack of All Trades
5. Death to My Hometown
6. This Depression
7. Wrecking Ball
8. You've Got It
9. Rocky Ground
10. Land of Hope and Dreams
11. We Are Alive

Wrecking includes the E Street Band, but it’s the group’s first release without the late Clarence Clemons. Although the album has not been heard in its entirely, a listener revealed: “He gets into economic justice quite a bit. It’s very rock ’n’ roll. He feels it's the angriest album he's ever made. Bear in mind, though, that [Springsteen] wrote and recorded the majority of the album before the Occupy movements started, so he's not just setting headlines to music.”