nebraska

The 10 tracks on Nebraska were recorded in New Jersey on a 4-track cassette recorder as demos intended to be later rerecorded with the E-Street Band (a unicorn album for Springsteenheads dubbed Electric Nebraska). The Boss went with remastered demos in the end. #landmark

File this quietly under Father's Day for some major kudos [or just gift to self -ed.] You can listen to the whole thing @ BruceSpringsteen. Woops, guess not #sonyfail. It is tear-your-heart-out stuff, but you knew that right.

Copies are all over the place but LP above (get this on vinyl... extra points) happens to be from the etsy shop CoMod; go get lost in the rest of their vintage/industrial picks.