Ghost of Tom Joad Tour
1995–97 concert tour by Bruce Springsteen / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ghost of Tom Joad Tour was a worldwide concert tour featuring Bruce Springsteen performing alone on stage in small halls and theatres, that ran off and on from late 1995 through the middle of 1997.[1] It followed the release of his 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad.[2]
Tour by Bruce Springsteen | |
Associated album | The Ghost of Tom Joad |
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Start date | November 21, 1995 |
End date | May 26, 1997 |
Legs | 7 |
No. of shows | 128 |
Bruce Springsteen concert chronology | |
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The tour represented Springsteen's first full-length, solo tour;[3] he traveled with only an instrument technician and a sound engineer.[4] As such it was a marked departure from the high-energy shows with the E Street Band that Springsteen had become famous for.[5] The album itself was quiet, dark, and angry, and Springsteen presented it as such in the shows on the tour.[3] Older songs from Springsteen's catalog, such as "Born in the U.S.A.," were presented in very different, often harsh re-arrangements.[2][6]
The result, especially in the tour's first leg of shows, was an uncompromising portrayal of pessimism;[7] Jon Pareles of The New York Times said that with the tour's performances, Springsteen "has taken his music to an extreme, a depressive's view of tedious, unending woe."[6] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune wrote that "In contrast to past tours, which have been celebratory events tinged by introspection, Springsteen brought a sobering sense of solitude" to the shows of this tour.[2] By some of the later shows of the tour, however, Springsteen relaxed the mood a bit by interweaving a few new songs with an almost comedic bent.[7]