Bruce Springsteen — Nebraska [USED]

Artwork: Very Good ++ still in shrink / Media: Very Good + with a slight hairline mark / Stereo / 1982 Carrollton, GA Pressing / There is an adage in the record business that a recording artist's demos of new songs often come off better than the more polished versions later worked up in a studio. But Bruce Springsteen was the first person to act on that theory, when he opted to release the demo versions of his latest songs, recorded with only acoustic or electric guitar, harmonica, and vocals, as his sixth album, Nebraska. It was really the content that dictated the approach, however. Nebraska's ten songs marked a departure for Springsteen, even as they took him farther down a road he'd already been traveling. Gradually, his songs became darker and more pessimistic, and those on Nebraska marked a new low. They also found him branching out into better-developed stories. The title track was a first-person account of the killing spree of mass murderer Charlie Starkweather. (It can't have