"Being asked to choose a favourite Bruce Springsteen album is quite difficult, because different Springsteen albums represent both different phases in my life, and in my thinking about music.
"I grew up listening to punk rock music, and to me, then, as a teenager, Springsteen was the guy in the blues jeans, and white T-shirt, with the American flag, and who gives a fuck about that guy? I really wasn't a fan. And then a friend of mine gave me a copy of Nebraska, and that was my gateway record into Springsteen. It was a huge deal to me, because hearing it was one of the first times that it occurred to me that you could be heavy, without being loud. But it's funny, everyone always bangs on about Nebraska, with good reason, but personally I would throw Devils And Dust on the 'essential Springsteen' pile too, and indeed The Ghost Of Tom Joad, because both those records are amazing also.
"But I've actually picked a different record, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. If you listen to [Turner's 2008 album] Love, Ire & Song, and then listen to The Seeger Sessions, then I'm in trouble. [Laughs] It was so interesting to me at the time to hear folk and country music played in such a raucous, joyous kind of way, that was news to me: hearing that real rock n' roll, and dare I say it, punk rock spirit infusing traditional music was such a 'penny drop' moment for me, and it really redirected my own writing.
