Listen to a new Bruce Springsteen song, “Rocky Ground,” streaming at NPR Music

Today’s new streaming song of the day from the new Bruce Springsteen album Wrecking Ball is “Rocky Ground.” You can stream it until midnight tonight at NPR Music. You can listen to it here. Bob Boilen writes about the song:

“Rocky Ground” is a song about keeping faith while the floodwaters rise. The song has those yearning spiritual horns I always loved in Van Morrison records, but this song doesn’t stop there. It opens with a sample of a historical recording: the words “I’m a soldier,” from the Church of God in Christ Congregation’s performance of “I’m A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord,” recorded by Alan Lomax in Clarksdale, Miss., in 1942.

You can read Bob Boilen’s full review of the song here. Wrecking Ball is released Tuesday, March 6th.