6791. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
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| From: Nebraska; Year: 1982; Genre: Folk |
This, the lead and title track off of his Nebraska album, just happened to be on my mind today.
It reminds me a lot of the old time folk singers from way back in how they wrote song about actual happenings, mostly gruesome tales and such. In this one he tells the tale of the serial killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate and their eight-day spree in 1958 killing 11 people. Although, he also was inspired by the writings of Flannery O'Connor, of which he took some artistic liberties with the tale.
The best aspect of this song in my opinion is how he stripped it back to essentially just him and his guitar as well as him overdubbing a few other instruments. It comes off quite to my ears as Pete Seeger meets the acoustic music of Neil Young; very emotional and profound.
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My song pick 13 years ago today: Rush - The Necromancer
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