"Lucky Town" was released simultaneously with "Human Touch" on March 31, 1992.
Bruce had been working on "Human Touch" and when he finished the album and believed it to be ready for release he wrote one more song called "Living Proof" about the birth of his son.
"By the time I finished the album (Human Touch) I was at a different place in my life.
I was a father and having this uplifting and happy relationship. I felt revitalized, and I didn't feel that was reflected in the "Human Touch" album. I didn't hear the Hallelujah, raise your hands to the sky of someone who felt as thankful and as blessed as i did. I had been away a long time, and I could imagine someone asking, "What's happened? Where are you nowadays?". I also felt like I hadn't risked enough artistically. So I put the record aside and sat with it two or three months. I felt I needed one more song".
"Living Proof" together with nine additional songs became the album "Lucky Town", a truly remarkable and uplifting release in which Springsteen sings of "Better Days" , "Local Heroes", the birth of his son and "My Beatutiful Reward". It is a radically different Bruce compared to "Darkness", "Nebraska" and the anger of "Born In The USA". Some fans were disappointed and just like "Human Touch", "Lucky Town" ended up as one of his least acclaimed releases among both fans and the critics. Though he may have lost money on the double release, Springsteen had definitely turned a corner. Gone was the brooding soul from the past, and in it's place stood a happy contented father and husband.
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