Album Review: Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition [Box Set] by Bruce Springsteen

The River had housed crowd-pleasers such as "Hungry Heart" and "Cadillac Ranch". However, Springsteen delved far deeper into the desolation and disillusionment at the double-album's core for its successor. To make Nebraska even more eminently marketable, Springsteen shelved the efforts to pep up the initial sparse one-man band recording with contributions from the E Street Band: the stark solo demos would be the finished album.

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Boxed sets celebrating classic rock albums offer the joy of discovery, in all those abandoned alternate versions being brought into the light as bonus tracks, but usually also some simultaneous historical relief: How interesting these early arrangements sound… and thank God they didn't ultimately get stuck there. In all those Beatles early takes you can almost always pick out something that didn't quite work, that they found a way to fix for the better at the last minute. For the most part, though, Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition" isn't like that.

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‘Nebraska’ is one of the most important records in Bruce Springsteen's 50 (plus) year recording career. Initially recorded on a four-track recorder in the bedroom of his New Jersey home, it was a far cry from the sounds of ‘The River’ and the anthemic sounds to come on ‘Born In The USA’. Now along with the Jeremy Allen White led Deliver Me From Nowhere on screen, The Boss takes a deep dive into the making of his most personal album with ‘Nebraska 82’, featuring outtakes, demos, live versions and the long rumoured electric ‘Nebraska’ featuring E Street Band versions of the original album.

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