Wrecking Ball

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All Music Guide
Marking his 17th studio album, 'Wrecking Ball' features 11 new Springsteen recordings and was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau.

Said long-time manager Jon Landau, "Bruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The lyrics tell a story you can't hear anywhere else and the music is his most innovative of recent years. The writing is some of the best of his career and both veteran fans and those who are new to Bruce will find much to love on 'Wrecking Ball.'" -- From the label
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All Music Guide
Marking his 17th studio album, 'Wrecking Ball' features 11 new Springsteen recordings and was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau.

Said long-time manager Jon Landau, "Bruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The lyrics tell a story you can't hear anywhere else and the music is his most innovative of recent years. The writing is some of the best of his career and both veteran fans and those who are new to Bruce will find much to love on 'Wrecking Ball.'" -- From the label
All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Heavy lies the crown on Bruce Springsteen' head. Alone among his generation -- or any subsequent, actually -- he has shouldered the burden of telling stories of the downtrodden in the new millennium, a class whose numbers increase by the year, a fact that weighs on Springsteen throughout 2012's Wrecking Ball. Such heavy-hearted rumination is not unusual for the Boss. Ever since The Rising, his 2012 return to action, a record deliberately tailored to address the lingering anger and sorrow from 9/11, Springsteen has eschewed the frivolous in favor of the weighty, escalating his dry, dusty folk and operatic rock in tandem, all in hopes of pushing the plight of the forgotten into public consciousness. Each of his five albums since The Rising has been tailored for the specific political moment -- Devils & Dust ruminated over forgotten Americans in the wake of the Iraq war, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions was an election year rallying call, Magic struggled to find meaning in these hard times, Working on a Dream saw hope in the dawning days of Obama -- and it's no mistake that Wrecking Ball fuses elements of all four into an election year state of the union: Bruce is taking stock of where we are and how we got here, urging us to push forward. If that sounds a bit haughty, it also plays that way. Springsteen has systematically removed any element of fun -- "Mary's Place" is the only original in the past decade that could be called a party song -- along with all the romance or any element confessional songwriting. He has adopted the mantle of troubadour as oral historian, telling tales of the forgotten and punctuating them with rallying calls to action. Wrecking Ball contains more of the latter than either of its predecessors, summoning the masses to rise up against fatcat bankers, set to singalongs lifted from Seeger. There's an unshakable collectivist hootenanny feel on Wrecking Ball, not to mention allusions to gospel including a borrowed refrain from "This Train," but Springsteen takes pains to have the music feel modern, inviting Tom Morello to do aural paintings with his guitar, threading some trip-hop rhythms into the mix, and finding space for a guest rap on "Rocky Ground." Springsteen is so focused on preaching against creeping inequality in the .U.S, he's emphasized his words over his music, letting the big-footed stomps and melancholy strumming play second fiddle to the stories. [A Special Edition added two bonus tracks, "Swallowed Up (In the Belly of the Whale)" and "American Land."]
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 3/6/2012
  • Label: Sony
  • UPC: 886919483628
  • Catalog Number: 194836
  • Sales rank: 3,216

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 We Take Care of Our Own - New York Chamber Consort (3:53)
  2. 2 Easy Money (3:36)
  3. 3 Shackled and Drawn (3:46)
  4. 4 Jack of All Trades - New York Chamber Consort (5:59)
  5. 5 Death to My Hometown (3:28)
  6. 6 This Depression (4:07)
  7. 7 Wrecking Ball - New York Chamber Consort (5:49)
  8. 8 You've Got It (3:48)
  9. 9 Rocky Ground - Victorious Gospel Choir (4:40)
  10. 10 Land of Hope and Dreams - Victorious Gospel Choir (6:58)
  11. 11 We Are Alive (5:43)
  12. 12 Swallowed Up (In the Belly of the Whale) (5:35)
  13. 13 American Land (4:25)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Bruce Springsteen Primary Artist, Organ, Banjo, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Drums, Vocals, Loops
Clarence Clemons Saxophone, Soloist
Patti Scialfa Background Vocals
Ron Aniello Bass, Guitar, Drums, Keyboards, Background Vocals, Hurdy-Gurdy, Loops
Art Baron Tuba, Euphonium, Sousaphone, Penny Whistle
Matt Chamberlain Percussion, Drums
Clark Gayton Trombone
Charlie Giordano Piano, Accordion, Hammond B3
Stan Harrison Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
Greg Leisz Banjo, Mandola, Lap Steel Guitar
Darrell Leonard Trumpet, Bass Trumpet
Dan Levine Euphonium, Alto Horn
Lisa Lowell Background Vocals
Cindy Mizelle Background Vocals
Tom Morello Guitar, Electric Guitar
Clif Norrell Background Vocals
Soozie Tyrell Violin, Background Vocals
Max Weinberg Drums
Curt Ramm Trumpet, Cornet
Kevin Buell Guitar, Drums, Background Vocals
Steve Jordan Percussion
Ross Petersen Background Vocals
Jeremy McCoy Violin (Bass)
Michelle Moore Vocals, Background Vocals
Corinda Carford Background Vocals
Tiffeny Andrews Background Vocals
Ed Manion Baritone Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
Rob Lebret Electric Guitar, Background Vocals
Antoinette Savage Background Vocals
Stevie Van Zandt Mandolin, Background Vocals
Dan Shelly Bassoon
Lilly Brown Background Vocals
Soloman Cobbs Background Vocals
Technical Credits
Bruce Springsteen Composer, Producer
Patti Scialfa Vocal Arrangements
Ron Aniello Producer, Engineer, overdub engineer, Pro-Tools
Jon Landau Executive Producer
Bob Ludwig Mastering
Clif Norrell Engineer
Toby Scott Engineer
Ross Petersen Engineer, overdub engineer, Pro-Tools
Michelle Holme Art Direction
Marilyn Laverty Publicity
Dave Bett Art Direction
Rob Lebret Engineer
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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 8, 2012

    Ranks up there with Born to Run--Courageous and bold

    I couldn't say it better than famed American novelist Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone): "Wrecking Ball sounds like it's quite possibly Bruce’s best album in a quarter century, for what my opinion's worth. It's bracing and subversive and furious and sonically fearless. It's going to give voice to a generation. Certainly to an era. In that regard I'd put it shoulder to shoulder with Born to Run, Highway 61 Revisited, Exile on Main Street, London Calling, and American Idiot. Indelible. I hate hyperbole, but I've got to say I stand in awe of Bruce's ability to make music this angry and relevant and authentic at any stage of his career, never mind 40 years on. Thank God for him."

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