# Bryan Adams returns home and writes a love letter to his native Canada on How’s It Goin’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/bryan-adams-returns-home-and-writes-a-love-letter-to-his-native-canada-on-hows-it-goin/
- Published: 2026-11-06T00:47:03+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T01:27:47+00:00
- Original publisher: Louder
- Original article: https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/bryan-adams-hows-it-goin
- Topics: Americas, Entertainment, Music, World

## Key points

- Adams’s new album celebrates his Canadian roots.
- Its songs draw on history and industry.
- The review says writing about home has renewed his work.

## Summary

Bryan Adams has returned to writing about Canada, turning a song commissioned for a documentary into an album inspired by the country where he grew up. The review sees How’s It Goin’ as one of his most inspired records in years, with its focus on home bringing fresh energy to his songwriting.

The album blends roots, folk and rock with Adams’s familiar power ballads. Its songs draw on the Klondike gold rush, the Second Narrows Bridge collapse, which killed 19 men, and the Canadian Pacific Railway; 51st State offers a pointed response to critics of Canadian life.

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