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Podcast: Pantheon - Podcasts for Music Lovers
Episode: Prisoners of Rock and Roll -- Bruce Springsteen & Electric Nebraska
Description: We’re opening the vault on the single most mythical recording in Bruce Springsteen’s long career: Electric Nebraska.
In January 1982: Bruce locked himself in a bedroom with a four-track and cut ten of the bleakest songs he’s ever written. A few months later, he took those songs into the studio with the E Street Band and tried them loud. They didn’t work. Bruce ultimately released the original demos, and Nebraska became one of the bleakest albums in the Springsteen catalogue.Â
But what about those full band recordings...