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"Nebraska" is the title song of Bruce Springsteen's 1982 solo album. The stark, moody composition sets the tone for the LP, the content of which consists mostly of songs about criminals and desperate people, accompanied only by acoustic guitar and harmonica . [ 1 ]
The song has become one of Bruce Springsteen's more popular concert staples, with over 700 performances through 2024. During the 1984-85 Born in the U.S.A. Tour, Bobby Jean would frequently appear during the second set of the shows with a loud audience response, during the 1988 Tunnel of Love Express, the song appeared during the European leg.
Nebraska is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on September 30, 1982, by Columbia Records.Springsteen recorded the songs as solo demos using a four-track recorder in the bedroom of his home in Colts Neck, New Jersey, intending to rerecord them with the E Street Band, but decided to release them as they were after full-band renditions were ...
Bruce Springsteen performing in 2024. Bruce Springsteen is an American singer-songwriter who has recorded almost 400 songs over a career lasting six decades. He began his career in the 1960s with local New Jersey bands the Castiles, Earth, and Steel Mill before embarking on a solo career and signing to Columbia Records in 1972.
"Highway Patrolman" is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen and was first released as the fifth track on his 1982 album Nebraska. The song tells the story of Joe Roberts, the highway patrolman of the title from whose viewpoint the song is written – and his brother, Frankie, and is set in the 1960s. Frankie is portrayed as unruly ...
"I'm on Fire" – 2:36 "Johnny Bye Bye" (Springsteen, Chuck Berry) – 1:50 The B-side of the single, "Johnny Bye Bye" - Just before he was sentenced to three years for violating the Mann Act in 1962, Chuck Berry wrote "Bye Bye Johnny", a sequel to "Johnny B. Goode", where a mother sent her musician son off to Hollywood to be a star.
Of the 10 songs on Nebraska, "Open All Night" is the only one to feature an electric guitar.With a Chuck Berry-style guitar riff, the song tells the story of an unnamed narrator's all-night drive across industrial New Jersey to reach his girl, Wanda, whom he met when she was a waitress at the Route 60 Bob's Big Boy.
"Downbound Train" is a song that appears on the 1984 Bruce Springsteen album Born in the U.S.A. The song is a lament to a lost spouse, and takes on a melancholy tone. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Author Christopher Sandford described the song as beginning "like a Keith Richards ' riff" that ultimately moves to "one of those great country busted-heart lines ...