Bruce Springsteen to release new album July 30

NEW YORK (Bruce Springsteen Fans & Top40 Charts) - Bruce Springsteen will release his first all-new studio recording with the E Street Band in 18 years July 30, a 14-song compilation titled " The Rising." "The Rising" will be Springsteen's first studio rock album since 1992, and his first effort with the full E Street Band since 1984. He worked with a new producer, Brendan O'Brien of Pearl Jam fame, and credited his collaborator with speeding the recording process.

Springsteen's public relations company confirmed the release date, which had been widely circulating on fan Web sites for the last several weeks, in a statement Monday.

The album, to be released on Columbia Records, a unit of Sony Corp ., was recorded earlier this year at Southern Tracks Recording in Atlanta and produced by Brendan O'Brien, a producer best known for his work with the group Pearl Jam .

While some E Street Band members played on the 1987 Springsteen release "Tunnel of Love," "The Rising" marks the first recording with the entire band since 1984's multi-platinum "Born in the U.S.A.," the statement said.

Springsteen, a perfectionist whose releases are few and far between, put out "Lucky Town" and "Human Touch" simultaneously in 1992. "The Boss" broke from the E Streeters on those recordings and the tour that followed by hiring a new set of musicians to back him.

The statement made no mention of a concert tour to promote "The Rising." In April 1999, Springsteen and the band launched a "reunion" tour in Barcelona , Spain, which ended in July of the following year at Madison Square Garden in New York. The final performance of that tour was used for a CD, DVD and HBO special, all titled "Live in New York City ."

"The Rising" track listing:

Lonesome Day
Into the Fire
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
Nothing Man
Countin' on a Miracle
Empty Sky
Worlds Apart
Let's Be Friends
Further On (Up the Road)
The Fuse
Mary's Place
You're Missing
The Rising
Paradise
My City of Ruins