In 1981, Bruce Springsteen found himself at a crossroads. He’d just finished his tour for The River, which had brought his marathon-length, rock & roll-revivalist shows to a record number of audiences. The E Street Band was hitting on all cylinders. “Hungry Heart” was his first single to crack the …
Read More »
Larry Campbell still remembers the voicemail he received early this spring, and from a familiar voice: “This is Bruce Springsteen. You know, I’m Patti Scialfa’s husband.” Campbell knew Springsteen’s tongue was planted firmly in cheek. The veteran guitarist’s résumé includes a seven-year stint in Bob Dylan’s band starting in 1997 …
Read More »
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Bruce Springsteen originally intended the home-recorded, solo-acoustic performances that became Nebraska to be demos for the E Street Band, and at New York City’s Power Station studio in …
Read More »
Populist independent candidate Dan Osborn has lost his bid for U.S. Senate in Nebraska to two-term Republican incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer. The result helps solidify the GOP’s control of the chamber, which it secured for the first time in four years on Tuesday. Osborn is a union leader, Navy veteran, …
Read More »
In the years since the federal right to abortion was struck down by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority in 2022, no measure seeking to protect abortion (or to reject new restrictions) had ever lost at the ballot box. That winning streak ended on Tuesday, as Amendment 4, which would have …
Read More »
The Senate map is so difficult for Democrats this November that one of their best chances of taking away a seat from Republicans is in ruby red Nebraska — with a candidate who isn’t even a Democrat. There have been few public polls released regarding the race. Republican polling suggests …
Read More »
Sen. Lindsey Graham is on a campaign to alter Nebraska‘s election laws to deliver an advantage to former president Donald Trump. “The entire federal delegation of Nebraska, House members and two senators, want this changed,” Graham said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “To my friends in Nebraska, that one …
Read More »
The biggest, glossiest album of Bruce Springsteen‘s career, 1984’s Born in the U.S.A., has a shadowy, equally classic twin —the low-fi, solo-acoustic Nebraska, released two years earlier. The albums are inextricably linked, beginning with the fact that multiple Born in the U.S.A. tracks — the title song, “Downbound Train,” “Working …
Read More »