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Studio album by Bruce Springsteen
Released June 14, 2019
Recorded 2010, 2014, 2018–2019[1]
Studio Stone Hill, Colts Neck, New Jersey; Ocean Studios, Burbank, California; Very Loud House, Woodland Hills, California; Avatar, New York City; Sage and Sound, Hollywood, California
Genre
Roots rockfolk rock[2]soft rock[3]country rock[4]orchestral pop[5]country pop[6]
Length 51:00
Label Columbia
Producer Ron Aniello, Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen chronology
Springsteen on Broadway
(2018) Western Stars
(2019) Letter to You
(2020)

Western Stars is the nineteenth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on June 14, 2019, by Columbia Records. It was produced by Ron Aniello, who worked with Springsteen on his two previous albums: Wrecking Ball (2012) and High Hopes (2014).

The album was a chart success in the United States—where it became Springsteen`s 20th top-10 album—and abroad. It was also met with widespread acclaim from critics, who found the music elegiac and evocative of the American West.

A full performance of the album was filmed and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The soundtrack of this movie (Western Stars – Songs from the Film) has an almost identical track list and was released in September 2019. Twelve outtakes from the recording sessions for Western Stars were released in June 2025 on an album titled Twilight Hours, which is part of the Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set.

Background
Springsteen stated in April 2019 that the album was influenced by `Southern California pop music` of the 1970s, including artists such as Glen Campbell and Burt Bacharach. Upon announcing the album in April 2019, he called it `a return to my solo recordings featuring character-driven songs and sweeping, cinematic orchestral arrangements`, with a press release characterizing it as about a `range of American themes, of highways and desert spaces, of isolation and community and the permanence of home and hope`.[7]

Marketing
`Hello Sunshine` was released on April 26, 2019, as the album`s lead single, along with a music video.[8] `There Goes My Miracle` was released as the album`s second single on May 17.[9][10] The album`s third single, `Tucson Train`, was released on May 30, along with a music video directed by Thom Zimny.[11] A music video for the album`s fourth single, `Western Stars`, also directed by Zimny, was released on June 14. A limited edition 7` vinyl double A-side single, featuring `Western Stars` and `The Wayfarer`, was released on Black Friday Record Store Day on November 29, 2019.[12]

Western Stars was released by Columbia on June 14, 2019.[13] The following week, it debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 66,000 album-equivalent units sold, of which 62,000 were pure album sales. It is Springsteen`s 20th US top 10 album.[14]

A documentary film, which marked Springsteen`s directorial debut and features a full performance of the album, premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2019, with a wide theatrical release in October 2019 along with an accompanying soundtrack for the film.[15] Springsteen did not tour for the album and announced that he would shift focus towards recording a new studio album with the E Street Band in the fall of 2019.[16][17]

All tracks are written by Bruce Springsteen.

Western Stars track listing
No. Title Length
1. `Hitch Hikin" 3:37
2. `The Wayfarer` 4:18
3. `Tucson Train` 3:31
4. `Western Stars` 4:41
5. `Sleepy Joe`s Café` 3:14
6. `Drive Fast (The Stuntman)` 4:16
7. `Chasin` Wild Horses` 5:03
8. `Sundown` 3:17
9. `Somewhere North of Nashville` 1:52
10. `Stones` 4:44
11. `There Goes My Miracle` 4:05
12. `Hello Sunshine` 3:56
13. `Moonlight Motel` 4:16
Total length: 51:00
The film version has the same track list, with the addition of the cover song `Rhinestone Cowboy`.



Personnel
Musicians
Bruce Springsteen – vocals, acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, synth strings, banjo, percussion, electric guitar, B3, piano, orchestral samples, celeste, organ solo, 12-string guitar, Mellotron
Patti Scialfa – vocals (tracks 2, 8, 9, 11), vocal arrangement (tracks 2, 8, 9, 11)
Ron Aniello – upright bass, piano, electric guitar, percussion, vibraphone, bass guitar, synth strings, orchestral samples, acoustic guitar, drums, B3, celeste, loops, synth, background vocal
Charlie Giordano – accordion (track 5), piano (track 9)
David Sancious – piano (track 2), B3 (track 6)
Matt Rollings – piano (tracks 3, 4, 8, 13)
Jon Brion – drums (track 13), timpani (tracks 10, 11), electric guitar (track 4), Moog (track 4, 5, 11), Farfisa (track 5), celeste (track 13)
Gunnar Olsen – drums (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11)
Matt Chamberlain – drums (track 2, 4, 12)
Marc Muller – lap steel (track 4), pedal steel (tracks 6, 7, 12)
Rob Lebret – electric guitar (track 4), baritone guitar (track 4)
Marty Rifkin – pedal steel (track 9)
Greg Leisz – pedal steel (track 13)
Lenny Castro – conga (tracks 4, 5), tambourine (tracks 4, 11), shaker (tracks 5, 11)
Toby Scott – loop (track 3), programming (track 3)
Soozie Tyrell – background vocal (tracks 2, 8, 9), violin (track 9)
Michelle Moore – background vocal (tracks 4, 11)
Curtis King – background vocal (track 4)
Cindy Mizelle – background vocals (track 4)
Matthew Koma – background vocal (track 11)
Curt Ramm – trumpet (tracks 2–5, 8, 11), flugelhorn (track 2)
Barry Danielian – trumpet (tracks 3–5, 7, 8, 11)
Clark Gayton – trombone (tracks 5, 8, 11)
Dan Levine – trombone (tracks 3, 4)
Ed Manion – saxophone (track 5)
Rachel Drehmann – French horn (tracks 2–4, 7, 10)
Leelanee Sterrett – French horn (tracks 2–4, 7, 10)
Alden Banta – bassoon (tracks 3, 4)
Andrew Sterman – alto flute (tracks 3, 4)
Charles Pillow – oboe (tracks 3, 4)
Luis Villalobos – violin (track 6, 10)
Avatar Strings (tracks 1, 7, 8, 10, 12):
Rob Mathes – conductor, arranger
Sandy Park – contractor
Lisa Kim (concertmaster), Hyunju Lee, Joanna Maurer, Sharon Yamada, Annaliesa Place, Suzanne Ornstein, Liz Lim, Jung Sun Yoo, Emily Popham – violins
Robert Rinehart, Vivek Kamath, Desiree Elsevier – violas
Alan Stepansky, Nathan Vickery – cellos
Stone Hill Strings (tracks 2–4, 6, 11):
Scott Tibbs – conductor
Sandy Park – contractor
Lisa Kim (concertmaster), Hyunju Lee, Joanna Maurer – violins
Shmuel Katz, Rebecca Young – violas
Alan Stepansky – cello
Technical
Ron Aniello, Bruce Springsteen – production
Rob Lebret, Ross Petersen, Toby Scott, Ron Aniello – engineering
Brett Rouche, Greg Koller, Alec Dixon, Rob Lebret, Ross Petersen, Chris Steffen – additional engineering
James Brown – additional engineering (track 9)
Tom Elmhirst – mixing
Joe Visciano – assistant
Bob Ludwig – mastering
Toby Scott – production coordinator
Shari Sutcliffe – musician contractor
Kevin Buell – guitars and technical services
Michelle Holme – art and design
Kalle Gustafsson (Trunk Archive) – cover photography
Danny Clinch – additional photography