June 28, 2024: 4pm ET: Feature LP: Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball (2012)

Wrecking Ball is the seventeenth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on March 6, 2012, on Columbia Records. It was named best album of 2012 by Rolling Stone and along with the album’s first single, “We Take Care of Our Own”, was nominated for three Grammy Awards.

1. “We Take Care of Our Own” 3:54
2. “Easy Money” 3:37
3. “Shackled and Drawn” 3:46
4. “Jack of All Trades” 6:00
5. “Death to My Hometown” 3:29
6. “This Depression” 4:08
7. “Wrecking Ball” 5:49
8. “You’ve Got It” 3:48
9. “Rocky Ground” 4:41
10. “Land of Hope and Dreams” 6:58
11. “We Are Alive” 5:36
12. “Swallowed Up (In the Belly of the Whale)” 5:28
13. “American Land” 4:25

Bruce Springsteen – vocals, guitars, banjo, piano, organ, drums, percussion, loops
Ron Aniello – guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, loops, backing vocals (tracks 3, 5, 7, 8, 13), percussion (track 13), hurdy gurdy (track 13)
Matt Chamberlain – drums & percussion (tracks 3, 5, 8)
Max Weinberg – drums (tracks 7, 11, 13)
Steve Jordan – percussion (track 2)
Kevin Buell – drums & backing vocals (track 5)
Charlie Giordano – piano, B-3 organ (tracks 3, 5, 7, 9–11, 13), accordion (track 12), celesta (track 13)
Marc Muller – pedal steel guitar (track 8)
Tom Morello – electric guitar (tracks 4, 6)
Greg Leisz – banjo, mandola, lap steel (tracks 8, 11)
Rob Lebret – electric guitar (track 7), backing vocals (tracks 5, 7, 8, 12, 13)
Steve Van Zandt – mandolin (tracks 10, 13), backing vocals (tracks 7, 10, 13)
Darrel Leonard – trumpet, bass trumpet (track 11)
Curt Ramm – trumpet, cornet (tracks 3, 4, 7–10)
Clark Gayton – trombone (tracks 3, 4, 7–10)
Stan Harrison – clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax (tracks 3, 4, 7–10)
Ed Manion – tenor sax, baritone sax (tracks 3, 4, 7–10)
Dan Levine – alto horn, euphonium (tracks 3, 4, 9, 10)
Art Baron – euphonium, tuba, sousaphone, penny whistle (tracks 3–5, 9, 10)
Clarence Clemons – saxophone solos (tracks 7, 10)
Soozie Tyrell – violin (tracks 2–7, 10–13), backing vocals (tracks 1–3, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13)
Patti Scialfa – backing vocals (tracks 1–3, 6, 7, 10–12), vocal arrangements (tracks 2, 6)
Lisa Lowell – backing vocals (tracks 1–3, 6, 7, 10)
Michelle Moore – backing vocals (tracks 2, 9, 10)
Cindy Mizelle – backing vocals (track 3)
Ross Petersen – backing vocals (tracks 3, 5, 7, 8)
Clif Norrell – backing vocals (tracks 3, 5, 7, 8)
Antoinette Savage – backing vocals (track 2)
Corinda Carford – backing vocals (track 2)
Tiffeny Andrews – backing vocals (track 2)
Soloman Cobbs – backing vocals (track 2)
Lilly Brown – backing vocals (track 2)
New York Chamber Consort – strings (tracks 1, 4, 7)
Victorious Gospel Choir – choir (tracks 9, 10)