01. "The Ghost of Tom Joad" 02. "Straight Time" 03. "Highway 29" 04. "Youngstown" 05. "Sinaloa Cowboys" 06. "The Line" 07. "Balboa Park" 08. "Dry Lightning" 09. "The New Timer" 10. "Across the Border" 11. "Galveston Bay" 12. "My Best Was Never Good Enough"
In 1982, with Ronald Reagan in the White House and much of America torn between a newly fierce patriotism and the dispassionate conservatism of the dawning "Greed Is Good" era, a number of roots-oriented rock musicians began examining the State of the Union in song, and one of the most powerful albums to come out of this movement was Bruce Springsteen's stark, home-recorded masterpiece Nebraska. In 1995, Bill Clinton was president, America was congratulating itself for a new era of high-tech peace and prosperity, and Springsteen returned to the themes and approach of Nebraska with The Ghost of Tom Joad, an album that suggested little had changed in the past 13 years.