The story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen's 1982 album Nebraska is so compelling, and such a significant chapter in his career, it's now the subject of a dramatised feature film, Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. And while there's no getting around the fact that this five-disc set has been released to promote said film - even the Boss isn't above cross-platform media marketing - it still succeeds as the last revealing word on the album's gestation.
That legendary story in short: Bruce Springsteen recorded the demos for Nebraska at home on a four-track tape machine with the intention of remaking them with the E Street Band. After five days in the studio, during which they recorded eight songs, Springsteen eventually decided that he preferred the haunted feel of his original solo cassette versions and put those out as the finished album.
