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"The Ghost of Tom Joad" is a folk rock song written by Bruce Springsteen. It is the title track to his eleventh studio album , released in 1995. The character Tom Joad , from John Steinbeck 's classic 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath , is mentioned in the title and narrative.
The Ghost of Tom Joad is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on November 21, 1995, by Columbia Records.His second primarily acoustic album after Nebraska (1982), The Ghost of Tom Joad reached the top ten in two countries, and the top twenty in five more, including No. 11 in the United States.
"Youngstown" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad. Although many of the songs on the album were performed by Springsteen solo, the lineup for "Youngstown" includes Soozie Tyrell on violin, Jim Hanson on bass, Gary Mallaber on drums, co-producer Chuck Plotkin on keyboards, and Marty Rifkin on pedal steel guitar.
The final song on Volume 1, split into two parts, tells the story of “Tom Joad", the leading character in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. "Wherever people ain’t free/Wherever men are fightin’ for their rights,” he sings, “That’s where I’m a-gonna be.”
Pa Joad: the Joad family patriarch, also named Tom, age 50. Hardworking sharecropper and family man. Pa becomes a broken man upon losing his livelihood and means of supporting his family, forcing Ma to assume leadership. Uncle John: Pa Joad's older brother (Tom describes him as "a fella about 60", but in narrative he is described as 50). He ...
The band released a cover version of Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad" as a single in 1997. The band's final album, 2000's Renegades , features cover versions of songs originally recorded by (from top to bottom) Eric B. & Rakim , MC5 , Afrika Bambaataa , Devo , EPMD , Minor Threat , Cypress Hill , The Stooges , The Rolling Stones and ...
The Rolling Stones threaten legal action against Trump’s campaign for using their music at his campaign rallies, as does the family of the late Tom Petty, who sent a cease-and-desist notice ...
The 1996 reprint of Journey to Nowhere included an introduction by Springsteen and the lyrics of his "The New Timer" and "Youngstown". [3] Another influence on the song was the real-life story of Thomas Jefferson "Alabama" Glenn, who became a hobo during the Great Depression . [ 2 ]