Bruce Springsteen - 1997-02-12 - Capitol Theatre, Sydney, AUS (2026) [Official Digital Download]

After skipping January 2026 for reasons that were neither announced nor explained, the nugs.net "First Friday" Live Archives series returned yesterday with another great show from the 1995-1997 solo-acoustic tour supporting The Ghost of Tom Joad. It's Capitol Theatre, Sydney, AUS, 2/12/1997. This was the only show on that tour, or on any other Springsteen tour, in which Bruce performed both his own song "The Ghost of Tom Joad" and Woody Guthrie's song "Tom Joad." (There was, however, another public event in which Springsteen performed both songs in the same set: during his acceptance of the 2021 Woody Guthrie Prize, presented to him in his home-studio in a ceremony live-streamed on May 13, 2021).

Tracklist
Disc 1
1. Tom Joad (7:24)
2. Atlantic City (5:19)
3. Straight Time (5:55)
4. Highway 29 (4:20)
5. Darkness On The Edge Of Town (3:39)
6. Murder Incorporated (3:25)
7. Highway Patrolman (8:23)
8. Freehold (8:54)
9. Red Headed Woman (3:39)
10. Two Hearts (4:16)
11. Brothers Under The Bridge (4:17)

Disc 2
1. Born in the U.S.A. (8:03)
2. Dry Lightning (4:56)
3. Long Time Comin' (7:07)
4. Sinaloa Cowboys (5:30)
5. The Line (5:20)
6. The Ghost of Tom Joad (11:21)
7. Across The Border (5:45)
8. Working On The Highway (4:19)
9. No Surrender (5:11)
10. There Will Never Be Another for Me but You (4:56)
11. If I Should Fall Behind (3:54)
12. The Promised Land (7:17)