This stark, folk-inflected album finds Springsteen channeling the spirit of Woody Guthrie, offering a somber meditation on the plight of undocumented immigrants.
- The album shares its title with a song by Woody Guthrie, written in 1940 about the fictional character of the same name created by John Steinbeck.
- Despite its somber themes, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 1997.
- "The Ghost of Tom Joad" was a departure from Springsteen's more commercially successful rock albums of the previous decade.
Bruce Springsteen is a singer-songwriter from New Jersey, best known for his brand of heartland rock. In 1995, he released "The Ghost of Tom Joad" as a solo artist, a departure from his work with the E Street Band.
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