Bruce Springsteen to Lead ‘Tonight Present’ Takeover With New Soul Covers

The Boss is taking up NBC’s “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon,” with a string of late-night musical appearances. Bruce Springsteen will make his first of 4 stops in New York’s 30 Rock beginning Monday, Nov. 14, by way of Wednesday, Nov. 16, plus one particular look on Nov. 24, for the present’s Thanksgiving episode.

Followers can even tune in to look at Springsteen because the present’s lead and musical visitor, cracking his headline-making jokes alongside host Jimmy Fallon. Springsteen has stopped by the present earlier than, together with his newest look being in 2020, nevertheless it marks the primary time that he will probably be a musical visitor on “The Tonight Present” (to not be confused with Fallon’s “Late Evening” stint).

In line with Deadline, Springsteen’s segments will primarily be performance-focused, because the “Born to Run” singer will debut 4 songs from his new soul covers album, “Solely the Robust Survive” (out Nov. 11). The album, Springsteen’s twenty first studio outing, has been described by the artist as paying homage to the “nice American songbook of the ’60s and ’70s,” with Levi Stubbs, Diana Ross, Dobie Grey and Scott Walker, cited as inspirations.

Springsteen didn’t affirm which of his new songs will probably be performed, however thus far he’s carried out covers of Commodores’ “Evening Shift” and Frank Wilson’s “Do I Love You (Certainly I Do).”

Beforehand, Demi Lovato, BTS, Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus, have all made musical takeovers on the present. Springsteen’s look comes as he prepares for his 2023 North American tour with the E Avenue Band, set to kick off on Feb. 1 in Tampa, Florida. The 2-and-a-half-month tour has 31 exhibits on the invoice earlier than the group heads out to Europe for abroad dates that can proceed by way of July.