You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to talk to poet and music critic Hanif Abdu Rakeeb about the music stories from 1980.

He's chosen for the excellent Lost Notes podcast.

And we'll talk with the director of the Jimmy Carter, rock and roll president, about how the Carter

administration changed how musicians interact with politicians.

But first, we've got some new music to review.

In my name to you,

I took all my fears and doubts.

In my love to you.

Oh the whole things I found out in my name to you.

Oh, that I found true.

And I sent it in my letter to you. That's a track called Letter to You on Soundopinions, the title track from Bruce Springsteen's latest album.

Bruce Springsteen and the East Street Band, together for the 20th studio album in Springsteen's career.

According to the myth that Springsteen is crafting around this record, some fan handed him an acoustic guitar as he was

exiting a stage door a few years ago and he took that guitar home and hey this

looks like a nice guitar and then a few years later wrote this entire album on that

particular guitar. Well not all of it three songs are from the ancient past. Right but

he's retooling them for this particular record and it fits.

We're going to discuss the themes of the record in a second, but those older songs

definitely play into some of the major themes that he's exploring in letter to you.

Before we get into our review, which I'm sure everyone's anticipating, everybody knows how much we both agree on Springsteen,

ha ha ha.

This is a track from the new record,

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