Watch Elvis Costello’s and Mumford & Sons’ Collective Cover of Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad”

Jun 12th, 2013 in Music

Elvis Costello and Mumford & Sons came together for One’s Protest Songs to cover Bruce Springsteen’s The Ghost of Tom Joad (which, according to One, Springsteen named after the main character from John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, and which “he hoped the song would personify or represent the voices of the hopeless, disenfranchised, and invisible as the book was said to do in the 1930”).  Check it out below, and the medley segment at end.  After, watch a video explaining One, which was co-founded by some dude named Bono.  Let’s hear it for the downtrodden!  Gospel, right there.  The Mumford banjo-dude in denim cut-offs, fay vest and trucker hat is a little much to have to pan over, but hey nonetheless:  gospel.

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