Bruce Springsteen Album Collection 2: 1987-1996

Appearing nearly four years after its predecessor, The Album Collection: 1987-1996, Vol. 2 chronicles Bruce Springsteen's difficult middle age, an era that began with 1987's Tunnel of Love and ended in 1995, when the release of the haunting The Ghost of Tom Joad was complicated by the first stirrings of the reunion of the E Street Band. Springsteen left the E Street Band behind once he put the Born in the U.S.A. tour in the history books. The blockbuster success of Born in the U.S.A. felt like a culmination of everything he worked toward in the previous decade, but he found himself at loose ends, not helped by shifts in his personal life: his brother-in-arms Steven Van Zandt left the E Street Band as Born started its ascendancy, while his 1985 marriage to Julianne Phillips quickly curdled. Springsteen swiftly found a lasting love in Patti Scialfa -- the pair married in 1991, just two years after his divorce from Phillips -- but it still took Bruce a long time to find his artistic footi