Springsteen Adds Metro Detroit to The River Tour

AUBURN HILLS, MI – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band have added an Auburn Hills date to The River Tour, one of 15 Midwest and West market stops added to the superstar band’s schedule.

The concert at The Palace at Auburn Hills is April 14. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 5.

During each stop on the North American leg of The River Tour, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band give an in-sequence performance of the 20 songs from 1980s “The River.” He previously had performed the album only once in its entirety, during a 2009 concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

The current tour’s three-hour-plus sets also include such classics as “Rosalita,” “Dancing in the Dark,” “Thunder Road” and “Born to Run.”

The River Tour, Springsteen’s first in two years, follows the December release of “The Ties That Bind: The River Collection,” a boxed set that contains the original “The River” album, along with outtakes, unreleased songs and a two-hour concert film from 1980.

“This was the record where I was trying to find out where I fit in,” Springsteen said of “The River” during the tour’s opening night, Jan. 16, in Pittsburgh. “I wanted to make a record that was big enough that it felt like life -- or like an E Street Band show.”