Bruce Springsteen surprised his fans by dropping a sweeping new single called Letter To You with his E Street Band this Thursday.

The 70-year-old croons about pouring ‘all my happiness and all my pain’ in a ‘letter to you’ about ‘hard times and good’ written ‘in ink and blood.’

Along with the new song he revealed that he and the E Street Band will release an album of the same name October 23, according to Billboard.

Recorded in a whirlwind five-day session at the studio at his New Jersey home, the album will feature songs that were written in the 1970s but never released.

These numbers are called If I Was The Priest, Song For Orphans and Janey Needs A Shooter and will accompany nine new songs Bruce wrote.

‘I love the emotional nature of Letter To You. And I love the sound of the E Street Band playing completely live in the studio, in a way we’ve never done before, and with no overdubs,’ said Bruce’s official statement.

‘We made the album in only five days, and it turned out to be one of the greatest recording experiences I’ve ever had,’ dished the Boss.

He last played with the E Street Band four years ago when they went on tour to sing songs from their album The River.

Letter To You’s tracklist demonstrates Bruce’s typical Americana feel with song titles like The Power Of Prayer, Burnin’ Train and House Of A Thousand Guitars.

The new music video for the title song shows Bruce wandering pensively through a snowy landscape out in the countryside.

These outdoor scenes are intercut with footage from inside the home studio where Bruce can be seen singing with the E Street band.

There are also shots showing him leafing through a notebook filled with writing, as well as scrawling letters onto a page.

Longtime E Street Band member Patti Scialfa who is also married to Bruce can be spotted in a number of shots in the music video.

Bruce and Patti are glimpsed tenderly cuddling up to one another in the home studio and E Street Band icon Steven Van Zandt is also visible.