The Ghost of Tom Joad Tracklist
The Ghost of Tom Joad is the eleventh studio album and the second acoustic album, by Bruce Springsteen. The album was released on November 21, 1995, through Columbia Records. The album was recorded and mixed at Thrill Hill West, Springsteen’s home studio in Los Angeles, California.
The album is mainly backed by acoustic guitar work and the lyrics on most tracks are a somber reflection of life in the mid-1990s in America and Mexico. The character of Tom Joad entered the American consciousness in John Steinbeck’s 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, set against the economic hardships of the Great Depression.
The Ghost of Tom Joad debuted at number 11 on the US Billboard 200 chart, with 107,000 copies sold in its first week.[1] The album won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
