Wrecking Ball (album)

wrecking ball
Bruce Springsteen's studio album
Publication (s)	March 6, 2012
Label (s)	Columbia Records
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Rock , folk punk , folk rock
Title (number)	13
running time	61:46
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 (tracks 7, 10) Tom Morello - electric guitar (tracks 4, 6)
production	Ron Aniello Bruce Springsteen
Studio (s)	Stone Hill Studio
chronology Working on a Dream (2009) wrecking ball High Hopes (2014)
Single release January 19, 2012 We Take Care of Our Own

Wrecking Ball ( Engl. For " wrecking ball ") is the seventeenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen . It was released on March 6, 2012 on Columbia Records . From the E Street Band , who have accompanied Springsteen for several decades, only a few musicians are involved in the album this time.

The album was created in 2008 against the backdrop of the banking and financial crisis . Nobody was held responsible for it. Therefore Springsteen is this time "particularly angry". Since longtime saxophonist Clarence Clemons passed away in June 2011, live saxophone solos from previous concerts were used for the pieces Wrecking Ball and Land of Hope and Dreams .

Track list

1. We Take Care of Our Own - 3:53
2. Easy Money - 3:36
3. Shackled and Drawn - 3:46
4. Jack of All Trades - 5:59
5. Death to My Hometown - 3:28
6. This depression - 4:07
7. Wrecking Ball - 5:49
8. You've Got It - 3:48
9. Rocky Ground - 4:40
10. Land of Hope and Dreams - 6:58
11. We Are Alive 5:36

Bonus tracks (only on the deluxe CD version):

1. Swallowed Up (In the Belly of the Whale)
2. American country

Reviews

• Christian Preußer from Plattentests.de wrote: "[...] But even his [meaning Clarence Clemons ] game cannot prevent Bruce Springsteen's seventeenth album from fulfilling all hopes."
• Kai Butterweck from Laut.de wrote: "The" Working On A Dream "successor has everything to secure a venerable place in the boss' impressive discography."
• Stefan Niederwieser from The Gap wrote: “The songwriter as an authentic expression of social feelings is revived by Springsteen, the type Woody Guthrie, who gives a voice to the disenfranchised who populate his videos, someone who knows complicated connections to simple slogans with honest, honest Guitars condense that it borders on social-drama-kitsch ”.

Professional reviews
source	rating
The gap

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wrecking Ball on brucespringsteen.net ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed March 17, 2012)  
2. ↑ Booklet for the CD
3. ↑ Jens Bauszus: The Clint Eastwood of Rock'n'Roll (March 2, 2012) on Focus Online
4. ↑ Bruce Springsteen: I cried when I heard Clarence Clemons on 'Wrecking Ball' on NME.com. ( Accessed March 17, 2012)
5. ↑ Record review on Plattentests.de (accessed on March 17, 2012).
6. ↑ Record review on laut.de (accessed on March 17, 2012).
7. ↑ Stefan Niederwieser: This Land Is Your Land ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (March 2012) on The Gap .