Bruce Springsteen’s official website describes his album Nebraska like this: “Recorded on four-track cassette in his New Jersey bedroom, Nebraska has proved one of Springsteen’s most enduring works, a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching not for salvation through music but simply a reason to believe.” Today we celebrate the anniversary of the recording of Nebraska on January 3rd, 1982. It’s truly amazing to think that one of Springsteen’s most memorable works was on a cassette tape Tascam Portastudio 144 in his bedroom.
From the haunting harmonica in the title track about the real life criminal Charlie Starkweather to “Used Cars” that tells the story of a family getting a “new” used car through the eyes of a little boy, Nebraska will be long be remembered for its raw and unyielding storytelling of the American experience.
