LITTLE STEVEN-LITTLE STEVEN:SOULFIRE

Little Steven Soulfire - Little Steven has announced his first solo album in almost two decades. Soulfire is released on May 19. 2017. The last time Steven Van Zandt released a record on his own was in 1999 with Born Again Savage. But it's not like he hasn't been busy the past 18 years. In addition to his regular gig as Bruce Springsteen's right-hand man in the E Street Band, he's starred in a couple of TV shows (including The Sopranos), hosts the weekly syndicated radio program Little Steven's Underground Garage and formed his own label, Wicked Cool Records. Van Zandt is backed on the album by a new lineup of the Disciples of Soul, the band he put together for his first solo record back in 1982, Men Without Women. The new LP is preceded by "Saint Valentine's Day," which you can listen to above. "I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that," he says of the new album. "I grew up in a renaissance period, a very lucky time when the greatest music ever made was also the most commercial. We'll never see that again so for me, there's only one criteria, which is greatness. That's all I care about. Is what I'm doing reaching for greatness? Whether I achieve it or not, that is one hundred percent of my criteria."