Lucky Town by Bruce Springsteen

Lucky Town was Bruce Springsteen's tenth studio album, issued by Columbia in 1992 on the very same day as Human Touch, his ninth. Like its twin, it was cut without the E Street Band, with Springsteen leaning mostly on hired session players and Jon Landau producing.

The sound is lean and loose, rock with a country-rock lope, the Boss sounding light on his feet. "Better Days", the lead single, doubled up as an A-side with "Human Touch" and topped the US Mainstream Rock chart while reaching number 16 on the Hot 100. The album itself climbed to number three on the Billboard 200 and went platinum. "If I Should Fall Behind" is the song from it that keeps turning up on countdowns.

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