BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - GHOST OF TOM JOAD SEALED MINT LP

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This is one of a series of rare or sealed LPs and EPs that I will be listing over the next several weeks.  This item is a still-sealed and mint pressing of The Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen, released on Columbia Records in 1995.  Springsteen was born and raised in a town near the shore in New Jersey, Freehold, and played in a number of local bands while in high school and during a very brief college stint.  Bruce then went on to begin playing local clubs in and around Asbury Park, New Jersey, and eventually garnered an audition for Columbia Records in New York City in the early 1970s.  Springsteen signed on with Columbia Records, and released his first album in 1973.  This album is his second solo and acoustic album (the first, Nebraska, was released in 1983) and it is filled with some very dark, stark songs.  Of these two, I prefer Nebraska but live, I think that the songs from this album – particularly the title track and Youngstown – really outshine everything on Nebraska.  This album is somewhat rare, again because of the very few vinyl LPs pressed in the timeframe of its release. 

As noted above, this album is in still-sealed and mint condition, as shown in the photo.

I do not use stock pictures.  The photo shows the actual item up for auction.

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