Bryan Adams announces new album How’s It Goin’, a “deeply personal musical love letter to Canada”
Bryan Adams has announced his 17th studio album, How's It Goin', described by his team as "a deeply personal musical love letter to Canada" that draws on the people, places and stories of his home country. The album follows last year's Roll with the Punches and will be released on 6 November via Adams' own label, BAD Records, marking a continuation of his prolific late-career output.
Two singles have already appeared: 51st State, a tongue-in-cheek response to suggestions Canada could become part of the US, and The Ballad Of Terry Fox, honouring the amputee runner whose 1980 cross-Canada run raised money for cancer research. Adams said the record grew out of writing a song for the documentary Canada's Wild Eastern Edge, which led him to explore more Canadian themes musically. The album will be available in standard formats plus a hardback book edition including the CD and related imagery, and is open for pre-order now.
- Bryan Adams announces 17th album, How's It Goin', out 6 November
- Album is a tribute to Canada, following Roll with the Punches
- Includes singles 51st State and The Ballad Of Terry Fox
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Bryan Adams is a Canadian singer and guitarist, best known for hits such as "Summer of '69" and "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", who has been recording since the late 1970s. Now in his sixties, he has remained a prolific recording artist in recent years, releasing albums regularly and running his own record label, BAD Records.
The new record follows on from last year's album Roll with the Punches and is themed around Adams's home country of Canada, touching on Canadian people, places and history. It comes at a time when the relationship between Canada and the United States has drawn public attention, including debate over remarks about Canada's political status relative to the US, which one of the album's advance singles references in a light-hearted way.
The story matters mainly to fans of Adams and followers of Canadian popular culture, as it marks a new chapter in the long career of one of the country's best-known musical exports, and touches on themes of national identity through music.