FILTER REISSUES
Bleak house
The mythic origin story of Springsteen’s greatest album revealed.
By Keith Cameron.
Monochrome set: Bruce the lone star, in 1982.
Bruce Springsteen
★★★★
Nebraska ’82
COLUMBIA. CD/DL/LP+BR
AS A John Ford fan, Bruce Springsteen is doubtless familiar with the famous line from 1962’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” A comment on the malleability of truth and American history, it’s equally relevant to Springsteen and the intrigue that’s long swirled around the co-mingled genesis of 1982’s bleak existential masterpiece Nebraska, made alone on a 4-track cassette recorder in his Colts Neck, New Jersey bedroom, and its successor Born In The USA, the jukebox-friendly state of the nation address which made him a superstar.