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"Little Steven Van Zandt has said that Bruce Springsteen&amp;#039;s new album Wrecking Ball is one of his most &amp;quot;vital&amp;quot; records. The E Street Band guitarist talked with The Huffington Post about Wrecking Ball and revealed that the LP ranks among his favorites. &amp;quot;I will tell you this: I love the album. I just absolutely love it, I think you&amp;#039;re going to love it and I think everybody else is too,&amp;quot; Van Zandt told the website. &amp;quot;The fact that a guy at his level of success, at his age, is still making records this vital and this relevant and this good, makes me just doubly proud to be his friend.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;I would love him anyway as a friend if he wasn&amp;#039;t doing anything, but it really makes me particularly proud to know him, that he would be this engaged, doing something this wonderful at this stage in the game.&amp;quot; Wrecking Ball features a pair of songs familiar to Springsteen fans. The musician first performed &amp;#039;Wrecking Ball&amp;#039; during his 2009 concerts at Giants Stadium in New York City, while &amp;#039;Land of Hope and Dreams&amp;#039; has been a staple of Springsteen&amp;#039;s live sets for over a decade. &amp;#039;American Land&amp;#039; - which Springsteen frequently played on his 2008 tour - also features on Wrecking Ball as a bonus track. Wrecking Ball is released on March 5. &amp;gt; Bruce Springsteen &amp;amp; The E Street Band to perform at Grammy Awards &amp;gt; Bruce Springsteen LP to feature Rage Against the Machine&amp;#039;s Tom Morello Watch Bruce Springsteen perform &amp;#039;American Land&amp;#039; at Hyde Park below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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