The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeremy Allen White ( “Brilliant . . . For fans of American music, AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Without Warren Zanes spoke to many people involved with making <Nebraska,< including Bruce Springsteen himself. He also interviewed more than a dozen celebrated artists and musical insiders, from Rosanne Cash to Steven Van Zandt, about their reactions to the album. Zanes interweaves these conversations with inquiries into the myriad cultural touchpoints, including Terrence Malick’s <Badlands <and the short stories of Flannery O’Conner, that influenced Springsteen as he was writing the album’s haunting songs. The result is a textured and revelatory account of not only a crucial moment in the career of an icon but also a record that upended all expectations and predicted a home-recording revolution....

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Warren Zanes