Album Collection 2: 1987-1996Appearing nearly four years after its predecessor, The Album Collection: 1987 1996, Vol. 2 chronicles Bruce Springsteen's difficult middle age, an era that began with 1987's Tunnel of Love and ended in 1995, when the release of the haunting The Ghost of Tom Joad was complicated by the first stirrings of the reunion of the E Street Band. Springsteen left the E Street Band behind once he put the Born in the U. S. A. tour in the history books. The