Wrecking Ball (Bruce Springsteen album)
Occupation
(Selection)
- Bruce Springsteen - vocals, electric guitar, banjo, piano, organ, drums, percussion
- Ron Aniello - guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, backing vocals ( tracks 3, 5, 7, 8)
- Matt Chamberlain - drums, percussion ( tracks 3, 5, 8 )
- Max Weinberg - drums ( tracks 7, 11)
- Clarence Clemons - saxophone solo (title 7, 10)
- Tom Morello - guitar ( tracks 4, 6)
Wrecking Ball (English for wrecking ball ) is the seventeenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. It was published on 6 March 2012 on Columbia Records. From the E Street Band, Springsteen accompanied for several decades, only few musicians involved in the album this time.
The album was created in 2008 in the context of the banking and financial crisis. No one has been held accountable. Therefore, this time he was probably " very angry ". As the longtime saxophonist Clarence Clemons died in June 2011, live saxophone solos were used in previous concerts for the pieces Wrecking Ball and Land of Hope and Dreams.
Title list
Bonus tracks ( only on the deluxe CD version ):
Reviews
- Christian Preußer of Plattentests.de wrote: " [ ... ] but can also be [ Clarence Clemons '] game does not prevent the seventeenth album by Bruce Springsteen does not meet all hopes. "
- Kai Butterweck of Laut.de wrote: " The " Working On A Dream " successor has everything to secure a venerable place in the impressive discography of the boss. "
- Stefan Niederwieser The Gap wrote: " The Songwriter as an authentic expression of social feeling is revived by Springsteen, the type of Woody Guthrie, who are the disenfranchised who populate his videos a voice, someone who complicated relationships to simple slogans with honest, honest Guitar compacted that it borders on social drama Kitsch "