![]() ![]() Throughout The Joshua Tree, we are confronted with the desolation of a deserted, immense, timeless landscape and with a nation of progress and oppressors, in a place where dreams and violence co-exist. ![]() ![]() In Ignatian terms, it celebrates, at once, Desolation and Consolation. The essence of the album is shaped around the band’s musical exploration of American and Irish folk roots. The gap between the ideal of the so-called Promised Land and the real America is one of the driving forces behind the most critically acclaimed of U2 albums, The Joshua Tree. ![]() “Be strong and of good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land which I sware unto their Fathers to give them” (Joshua, 1:6, KJV).
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