Musician Bruce Springsteen arrives on the red carpet to attend the screening of the film ''The Promise: The Making Of Darkness On The Edge Of Town'' at the Rome Film Festival November 1, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Alessia PierdomenicoBy Phil GalloWed Jun 15, 2011 10:23pm EDT
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Bruce Springsteen has recorded a new Pete Seeger song for a Seeger album that is penciled in for release this holiday season.
Springsteen sings two verses and a chorus on "God is Counting on Us," a song Seeger wrote in response to the oil spill in the Gulf Coast. Appleseed Recordings will release the Seeger album.
The song will be the sixth exclusive Springsteen song that Appleseed has released in conjunction with its various Seeger projects, label owner Jim Musselman told Billboard.com. The Boss has had tracks on 1998's "Where Have all the Flowers Gone," 2007's Sowing the Seeds" and 2007's "Give Us Your Poor" among others.
"Tomorrow's Children," the latest Seeger recording from Appleseed, won the Grammy this year for musical album for children. Seeger, 92, has been honored with Grammys, a Kennedy Center Award, the Presidential Medal of the Arts and a Lifetime Legends medal from the Library of Congress.
Springsteen paid tribute to Seeger in 2006 with his album "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions" and a subsequent live album featuring performances of the recordings.
