What does it sound like?:
The story of the Nebraska album is pretty well known. Springsteen had reached a new level of popularity with The River album and it’s subsequent tour including a first visit to Europe since 1975. After the tour wound up he began work early 1982 on his next project recording demos at home in New Jersey. He was going through a period of depression which was not generally known at the time. Looking back this can clearly be heard in the music he was working on. He took the resulting demos to the E Street band and an attempt was made to record them as potentially the next band album. Bruce was not satisfied with the results and together with manager Jon Landau a decision was made to release most of the solo recordings as the follow up album instead.
The album that came out was something of a commercial success but sales were not at the level of the previous album. There were no hit singles, no tour and songs about serial killers and his childhood clearly held less commercial appeal than Humgry Heart. Astute Bruce watchers would however have noticed the seeds of » Continue Reading.
