June 19, 2024: 7pm ET: Feature LP: Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)

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The Ghost of Tom Joad is the eleventh studio album, and the second acoustic album, by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on November 21, 1995, by Columbia Records. It reached the top ten in two countries, and the top twenty in five more, including No. 11 in the United States, his first studio album to fail to reach the top ten in the US in over two decades. It won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

  1. “The Ghost of Tom Joad” 4:23
  2. “Straight Time” 3:25
  3. “Highway 29” 3:39
  4. “Youngstown” 3:52
  5. “Sinaloa Cowboys” 3:51
  6. “The Line” 5:14
  7. “Balboa Park” 3:19
  8. “Dry Lightning” 3:30
  9. “The New Timer” 5:45
  10. “Across the Border” 5:24
  11. “Galveston Bay” 5:04
  12. “My Best Was Never Good Enough” 2:00

Bruce Springsteen – vocal (tracks 1-12), guitar (tracks 1-12), harmonica (tracks 1, 10), keyboard (tracks 3, 5-7, 11, 12)
Danny Federici – keyboard (tracks 1, 2, 8, 10), accordion (track 10)
Chuck Plotkin – keyboard (track 4)
Gary Mallaber – drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 10), percussion (tracks 2, 4)
Marty Rifkin – pedal steel guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 10)
Garry Tallent – bass (tracks 1, 8)
Jim Hanson – bass (tracks 2, 4)
Jennifer Condos – bass (track 10)
Soozie Tyrell – violin (tracks 2, 4, 8, 10), backing vocal (track 10)
Lisa Lowell – backing vocal (track 10)
Patti Scialfa – backing vocal (track 10)

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