Things were looking good for Bruce Springsteen in 1981. He’d just had his chart breakthrough with Hungry Heart and everyone from the record company bosses on down expected his next release to catapult him to multi-platinum status.
Springsteen had other ideas. Hiding away in a rented home in rural New Jersey with a four-track, a few guitars, and a lot of demons for company, he took the crucial artistic left-turn towards Nebraska, a sparse acoustic record that he, and many others, still consider to be among his best.
