Wrecking Ball

Personnel: Bruce Springsteen (vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, organ, drums, percussion, loops); Ron Aniello (guitar, keyboards, drums, loops); Kevin Buell (guitar); Greg Leisz (banjo, mandola); Charlie Giordano (accordion, piano); Stan Harrison (clarinet, alto saxophone); Ed Manion (tenor saxophone); Darrell Leonard, Curt Ramm (trumpet); Art Baron (euphonium, tuba, sousaphone); Dan Levine (alto horn).Recording information: MSR Studio B (2011); Stone Hill Studio (2011); Very Loud House Studio (2011).Photographers: Jo Lopez; Danny Clinch.Heavy lies the crown on Bruce Springsteen' head. Alone among his generation -- or any subsequent, actually -- he has shouldered the burden of telling stories of the downtrodden in the new millennium, a class whose numbers increase by the year, a fact that weighs on Springsteen throughout 2012's Wrecking Ball. Such heavy-hearted rumination is not unusual for the Boss. Ever since The Rising, his 2012 return to action, a record deliberately tailored to addres