Monday Music: Ghost of Tom Joad (Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen)

"The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen takes its inspiration from John Steinbeck's screenplay of The Grapes of Wrath, in which Henry Fonda played the Tom Joad character. It also draws from Woody Guthrie's "Ballad of Tom Joad." It would only be natural to consider Pete Seeger to sing this song with Bruce. After all, Pete once traveled with Woody Guthrie and his folk music laid the groundwork to inspire Springsteen's career.

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