Deliver Me from Nowhere

This year is the 30-year anniversary of the release of Nebraska. Since Bruce recorded films for the Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town anniversaries, I wonder if he'll do the same for Nebraska - I certainly hope so, since the story of that album coming to be is much more interesting anyway:

Springsteen wrote and recorded these songs as demos on a 4-track audiocassette tape recorder in his house in mostly one day (Jaunary 3,1982): that is, just him, a guitar, a harmonica, an overdubbed harmony or mandolin here or there, an old Gibson Echoplex mixed in for effect.  He just popped this one cassette tape demo in his pocket (without a case) and took it to play for the band. After attempting to work them up with a full band, they decided the haunting sparceness of the demo worked best with the emotional content of the material. It was released as a stripped-down, folk-sounding, lament of a recording in the fall. That very same audiocassette tape was used as the master