Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost of Tom Joad (LP Vinyl)
Steinbeck's Okies never left Springsteen's imagination, and by 1995 he was channeling them through the immigrant workers and border crossings of Reagan and post-Reagan America. Where Nebraska stumbled into its quiet devastation, Tom Joad arrived with a writer fully in command of the folk and country lineage he was drawing from, closer in spirit to Woody Guthrie than to the arenas he'd packed a decade earlier.
While 1982's Nebraska was Springsteen's first acoustic work, it was a happy accident, drawing from a series of spare four-track demos recorded in his bedroom. The Ghost Of Tom Joad, meanwhile, was an intentionally stark album, primarily consisting of solo acoustic numbers like the aching title track (famously re-interpreted by Rage Against The Machine). It also featured several full band tracks, including appearances by E Street Band keyboardist Danny Federici and bassist Garry Tallent after a full band reunion in the studio the previous year. The Ghost Of Tom Joad was also Springsteen's first full album to win a Grammy Award, in the category of Best Contemporary Folk Album.
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UPC: 889854601713
Label: Sony Legacy
Release Date: 10.26.18
Format: LP Vinyl