release date: Nov. 21, 1995
format: cd (2005 reissue)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,32]
producer: Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Plotkin
label: Sony Music Direct, Japan - nationality: USA
11th studio album by Bruce Springsteen originally released by Columbia Records. The album follows another live album by Springsteen, this time the obligatory live album for an MTV crowd, although, Bruce had it his way changing the channel's unplugged sessions to an "MTV Plugged" album.
This is a critically acclaimed move into his acoustic singer / songwriter tradition initiated on Nebraska (1982), and this is often mentioned as his natural follow-up to that album.
I didn't listen to it at all in the 90s and only came across the album in the new millennium, but it is a mighty fine collection of songs proving what a great songwriter Springsteen truly is, and it's easily an improvement to his two 92 studio releases.
[ allmusic.com, Rolling Stone 3 / 5 stars ]
