Springsteen goes Steinbeck

The album's title is announced already: Springsteen has in the footsteps of Steinbeck's novel "Grapes of Wrath" go with "The Ghost of Tom Joad" ("The Grapes of Wrath"). 12 songs about the losers of the American Dream, about illegal immigrants, the homeless, Disappointed. Musically builds Springsteen on "Nebraska" in: ballad in the tradition of American songwriter, dominated by acoustic guitar and harmonica, orchestrated total sparingly. Even more acts Springsteen song: haunting, melancholic, but with restrained anger, poetic even. A direct hit to the heart! The whole album has a very unique atmosphere, you can almost see the endless deserts of the American Southwest right to act in the lost people - lengths without Monument Valley romanticism and without consolation. The Ghost of Tom Joad is still alive.

Bruce Springsteen succeed on this CD (its best, along with "Nebraska") something not even Bob Dylan in such striking ways succeeded: He tells stories of how they would have Steinbeck can tell, and would these stories even understand if you could not speak English. It is this incredible intensity of his interpretation.

Fans of rock musician Springsteen could perhaps be disappointed by this other side of the "Boss" - but if it were up to me, he would have made more albums of this kind.