Song · Bruce Springsteen
“Jack Of All Trades” by Bruce Springsteen
From the album Wrecking Ball (2012)
“Jack Of All Trades” by Bruce Springsteen appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2012 and 2013. It was first released in 2012 on the album Wrecking Ball. Its best result is #103 on the WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #199 indie & aaa song of 2012.
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Bruce Springsteen wrote most of Wrecking Ball, his 17th studio album and a 2012 release on Columbia, in 2011, but "Jack of All Trades" goes back to 2009. It grew out of the state of the economy, something he was still talking to crowds about on the Wrecking Ball World Tour.
Springsteen wrote it alone and produced it with Ron Aniello, and the two of them split piano, guitar, drums and drum machine, with Aniello adding keyboard, bass and backing vocals and Springsteen bringing organ, banjo and percussion. Tom Morello plays guitar as well. Around them sits a small brass band: Curt Ramm on trumpet and cornet, Clark Gayton on trombone, Stan Harrison and Ed Manion on saxophones, Art Baron on tuba and sousaphone, Dan Levine on euphonium and tenor horn, plus strings from the New York Chamber Consort. Bob Clearmountain mixed it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 103 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012 | 200 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 594 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
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