"If I had to pick one album out and say, 'This is going to represent you 50 years from now,' I'd  pick 'Nebraska"
~Bruce Springsteen
It’s hard for me to fathom that it’s been 50 years since I first saw Springsteen perform live. It was November 18, 1975, at the Hammersmith Odeon in London (now called the Eventim Apollo).
I was just a quiet, reserved little Englishman, experiencing something like a musical volcano—the likes of which I had never encountered before—as was the audience I was a part of.
Well, it’s a big weekend for Bruce: the release of Deliver Me From Nowhere. Biopics are notoriously hard to pull off, but Jeremy Allen White gives a great performance as Bruce.
It is also the release of Inside Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition, one of his seminal albums.
It’s rare for an album cover to so perfectly capture the spirit of the music, but David Michael Kennedy’s sublime landscape does just that. There’s a quiet magic in the image, you can almost feel the same raw emotion that runs through the Springsteen's songs themselves.
Bruce, through his talent and deep empathy, gave us access to the lives of ordinary Americans, revealing stories of loss, guilt, and disillusionment with haunting simplicity. Nebraska stands as one of his most emotionally honest and enduring works. It’s hard not to think about its themes and resonance in today’s world.