Created more quickly and easily than ‘Human Touch,’ its companion album issued simultaneously in 1992, the platinum-certified ‘Lucky Town’ runs the gamut from the rocking title track to the soft and soul-searching “My Beautiful Reward.”
• Much of the songwriting is autobiographical, from “Local Hero” to the masterful “Living Proof,” written after the birth of Bruce Springsteen's first son. “…the breakup of the E Street Band following the Human Rights Now! Tour in 1988 gave Springsteen the freedom to record with different musicians for virtually the first time in his career, and there are a few songs on the two albums that probably would not have surfaced on an E Street album,” wrote Rolling Stone.