Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost Of Tom Joad (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP The spirit of his famed

The spirit of his famed aunt

Wonderful stuff

Like the Mersey Beat

it reels around folk-like couplets with brusque punk swagger fed through psychedelic hues

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Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost Of Tom Joad (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP The spirit of his famedWith several of its songs drawn directly from news stories, The Ghost of Tom Joad is more explicitly political than Nebraska (more so than anything in Springsteen's catalog, for that matter), and while the arrangements are more full bodied than those on Nebraska (five cuts feature a full band), the production and the overall tone is, if anything, even starker and more low key, with the lyrics all the more powerful for their spare backdrops. While