January's Album of the Month: Wrecking Ball- Bruce Springsteen

  

In anticipation of Bruce's new album, High Hopes, being released next week; I thought I'd take a look back at his last album, Wrecking Ball.  Of all of the Boss's albums released in what has turned out to be, perhaps, his most productive decade, this is probably his most ambitious.

He looks forward by looking back; he takes the traditional folk instrumentation and arrangements that he experimented with earlier in the decade on We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions and fuses it with 21st century sounds and technology.  The result is something that is simultaneously unique and familiar.

Key Tracks: "Wrecking Ball", "Death to My Hometown", "Land of Hope and Dreams", "Shackled and Drawn"