The album that made me open my eyes back to Bruce Springsteen was an album that I feel many diehard fans rarely talk about that album is 1995’s, The Ghost of Tom Joad.

The Ghost of Tom Joad is Springsteen’s eleventh studio album. It was recorded between March and September 1995 and released on November 21, 1995, by Columbia Records. This was only Bruce’s second mostly acoustic album after 1982’s Nebraska. Interestingly enough, it was his first studio album to fail to reach the top ten in the US in over two decades, and this is reason number 700 why I love it so much.

Different from his previous albums, Bruce wanted to make his melodies uncomplicated. He writes about people who traveled light, who were transient and people who left behind hard, complicated lives in another country.

Bruce knew The Ghost of Tom Joad would not attract his largest audience, but like Nebraska, he was still very proud of it. He felt it represented what it stood for, a view from a different perspective. A perspective many folks in the United States have sadly forgotten exists or don’t care about.

The album was released on November 21st, 1995, which happened to also be the night Bruce performed his first full solo acoustic concert since the early 1970s. In a solo show, there’s just one man, one guitar and the audience. As Bruce later writes in his book,

“What’s drawn forth is the emotional nucleus of your song. If your song is written well, it will stand in its skeleton form. Unlike Born in the USA, this album was naked”.

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