launch september 28th

The darkest recording of Bruce... Back from an end-less "River" tour, Bruce is tired. Like usual, he explains his feelings by images : "I was the man in the car, looking at others life threw dark glasses, I was no more in a community". Introspection and self analysis has always been his characteristic and he is afraid to follow the exemple of one of his youth heroes: Elvis Presley. He feels that his personnal life is going down and as he is at the top of his popularity -before the "Born in the U.S.A." period that will lead him higher, but how could he know that one year before?-.

Bruce get the blues. He lock himself home and record on a 4 tracks Teac tape recorder very dark songs. But why won't we let Bruce himself talk about this period like he did in his excellent book "Songs":
By 1981, after a year of touring the world for The River, I came back to New Jersey and began to thinking about my next record. I'd grown tired of expending so much energy in professionnal recording studios where I rarely got the right group of songs I was after without wasting a lot of time and expense. I found the atmosphere in the studio to be sterile ans isolating, and the long drifting records emotionally wearing. I decided I needed to find a way to hear my songs before I brought them into the studio. I called my guitar tech and ascked him to pick up something that would be suitable for some cheap and easy home recording. He came back with a four-track Teac tape machine, and we set it up in my bedroom in Colts Neck, New Jersey. That was where I recorded Nebraska.