"Even when testing out the material with his most intuitive collaborators, working with some of the best songs he'd ever written, the definitive version of Nebraska remains the one he captured on tape in his Colts Neck home in January 1982: just a depressive guy in his early 30s with an acoustic guitar, a TASCAM PortaStudio, and an Echoplex, tracking solo demos for his next full-band record."
"After the success of his poppy 1980 single " Hungry Heart" and building off the momentum of several years of nonstop touring and critically acclaimed albums, Springsteen entered the most creatively restless period of his career. First, he wrote the murder ballads and haunted lullabies of Nebraska, which he tried to re-capture with the E Street Band, and in solo renditions in the studio, before deciding to release the home-recorded demos."
A new box set includes the fabled Electric Nebraska sessions and assembles the full recording history surrounding Nebraska. Bruce Springsteen recorded the definitive Nebraska demos alone in his Colts Neck home in January 1982 with an acoustic guitar, a TASCAM PortaStudio, and an Echoplex. Multiple attempts to rework the songs with the E Street Band and as studio solo renditions followed, but those versions functioned as experiments beside the stark home tapes. The period produced murder ballads and haunted lullabies, influenced later writing leading to Born in the U.S.A., and generated outtakes later issued on compilations like Tracks and Tracks II.
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