The Ghost Of Tom Joad  by Bruce Springsteen

We are in the mid-'90s, and Bruce Springsteen has come back to the music forefront due to the song "Streets Of Philadelphia" for the 1993 film "Philadelphia." At the same time, in the U.S., a social and political issue has arisen concerning those who cross the borders of the southern states and enter the U.S.

Bruce Springsteen combines the above two and creates "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" in 1995, an acoustic album of twelve compositions about the stories of people who found themselves at the center of this immigration crisis to make his fellow citizens think about the issue. The inspiration for the album and its title comes from Tom Joad, the protagonist of the book and movie "The Grapes of Wrath" from 1939, which addresses the internal migration that occurred in the 1930s in the U.S. from the Midwestern States to California due to the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

The album was Springsteen's first that did not reach No. 1 in the U.S. after two decades, but it managed to win the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album of its year.