To the Editor:
In a January 8 review of a holiday package released by hard-rock band Rage Against the Machine ["Rage Against the Machine continues success with video and CD," The Dartmouth] I was surprised to read that arts writer Sebastian Barreveld called the song "The Ghost of Tom Joad" a "fragile composite of several carefully chosen catch phrases."
In fact, the song is a Bruce Springsteen cover. The song was previously released as the title track of Springsteen's 1996 album "The Ghost of Tom Joad," which earned Springsteen a Grammy award for Best Folk Album.
Omitting this fact (often mentioned in the national press) in a half-page review of the work comes as quite a surprise.
