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Tom Joad has long been an icon of social justice and protest movements. Woody Guthrie used his name in the song, "The Ballad Of Tom Joad". Bruce Springsteen wrote a song called "The Ghost of Tom Joad", the title track of his 1995 album. Springsteen's song has been covered by Rage Against the Machine, including a performance by Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine's guitarist) at the Rock Hall of Fame concert in 2009, and José González's group, Junip.
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