Editing Bruce Springsteen (section)

===1992–1998: Academy award, ''Greatest Hits'', and soundtracks===
In 1992, after risking fan accusations of "going Hollywood" by moving to Los Angeles and working with [[session musician]]s, Springsteen released two albums at once: ''[[Human Touch]]'' and ''[[Lucky Town]]''.{{sfn|Margotin|Guesdon|2020|p=304}}

An electric band appearance on the acoustic ''[[MTV Unplugged]]'' television program (later released as ''[[In Concert/MTV Plugged]]'') was poorly received and cemented fan dissatisfaction.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hyden |first=Steven |title=Twilight of the Gods |publisher=Harper Collins |year=2018 |isbn=978-0062657138 |page=109}}</ref>

Springsteen won an [[Academy Award]] in 1994 for his song "[[Streets of Philadelphia]]", which appeared on the soundtrack to the film ''[[Philadelphia (film)|Philadelphia]]''. The video for the song shows Springsteen's actual vocal performance, recorded using a hidden microphone, to a prerecorded instrumental track. This technique was developed on the "[[Brilliant Disguise#Video|Brilliant Disguise]]" video.{{sfn|Margotin|Guesdon|2020|p=288}}

[[File:President Bill Clinton and Bruce Springsteen.jpg|thumb|U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] with Springsteen in December 1997]]

In 1995, after temporarily re-organizing the E Street Band for a few new songs recorded for his first ''[[Greatest Hits (Bruce Springsteen album)|Greatest Hits]]'' album (a recording session that was chronicled in the documentary ''[[Blood Brothers (1996 film)|Blood Brothers]]''), and also one show at Tramps in New York City,{{sfn|Margotin|Guesdon|2020|p=354}} he released his second folk album, ''[[The Ghost of Tom Joad]]''. The album was inspired by [[John Steinbeck]]'s ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' and by ''Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass'', a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author [[Dale Maharidge]] and photographer [[Michael Williamson (photographer)|Michael Williamson]]. The album was generally less well-received than the thematically similar ''Nebraska'' due to the minimal [[melody]], twangy vocals, and political nature of most of the songs; however, some praised it for giving a voice to immigrants and others who rarely have one in American culture. The lengthy, worldwide, small-venue solo acoustic [[Ghost of Tom Joad Tour]] that followed presented many of his older songs in drastically reshaped acoustic form, although Springsteen had to explicitly remind his audiences to "shut the fuck up" and not to clap during the performances.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Masciotra |first=David |date=September 16, 2017 |title=Bruce Springsteen's 'The Ghost of Tom Joad', then and now |url=https://www.salon.com/2017/09/16/bruce-springsteens-the-ghost-of-tom-joad-then-and-now/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210104131505/https://www.salon.com/2017/09/16/bruce-springsteens-the-ghost-of-tom-joad-then-and-now/ |archive-date=January 4, 2021 |access-date=January 7, 2021 |website=Salon}}</ref>

Following that tour, Springsteen moved from California back to New Jersey with his family.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Tyrangiel |first1=Josh |last2=Carcaterra |first2=Kate |date=August 5, 2002 |title=Bruce Rising |pages=2 of 6 |magazine=Time |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1002987-2,00.html |url-status=dead |access-date=March 23, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224174330/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C1002987-2%2C00.html |archive-date=December 24, 2007}}</ref> In 1998, he released the sprawling, four-disc [[box set]] of [[outtake]]s, ''[[Tracks (Bruce Springsteen album)|Tracks]]''. Later, he would acknowledge that the 1990s were musically a "lost period" for him: "I didn't do a lot of work. Some people would say I didn't do my best work."<ref name="rs-cover">{{Cite magazine |last=Fricke |first=David |author-link=David Fricke |date=February 5, 2009 |title=Bringing It All Back Home |magazine=Rolling Stone |url=http://www.shorefire.com/media/R1071Bruce_20090123_113016.pdf |url-status=dead |access-date=May 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325122048/http://www.shorefire.com/media/R1071Bruce_20090123_113016.pdf |archive-date=March 25, 2009}}</ref>