Nebraska (album)

Nebraska
Nebraska
Studio album by Bruce Springsteen
Released	September 30, 1982
Recorded	December 17, 1981, to January 3, 1982, in Colts Neck, New Jersey, except "My Father's House", May 25, 1982
Genre	Folk; folk rock; heartland rock;
Length	40:50
Label	Columbia
Producer	Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen chronology
Singles from Nebraska
	"Atlantic City"; Released: October 8, 1982 (UK only); "Open All Night"; Released: November 26, 1982 (UK only);

Nebraska is the sixth studio album by Bruce Springsteen and released on 30 September, 1982 through Columbia Records. It went to number 2 in Sweden, number 3 in Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the United States and the United Kingdom, number 7 in the Netherlands, number 8 in Australia and number 10 in Japan. It was ranked #150 on the 500 albums of all time by the Rolling Stone magazine in 2020.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Bruce Springsteen.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Nebraska"	4:32
2.	"Atlantic City"	4:00
3.	"Mansion on the Hill"	4:08
4.	"Johnny 99"	3:44
5.	"Highway Patrolman"	5:40
6.	"State Trooper"	3:17

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Used Cars"	3:11
2.	"Open All Night"	2:58
3.	"My Father's House"	5:07
4.	"Reason to Believe"	4:11
Total length:		40:50

Nebraska (album) Media

Bruce Springsteen, Drammenshallen, Norway
The short stories of Flannery O'Connor (pictured in 1947) influenced Springsteen when writing Nebraska.
Springsteen played a Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar for Nebraska, similar to the one pictured here.
"Nebraska" is sung from the point-of-view of the killer Charles Starkweather, pictured here with his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate in December 1957.
Jeremy Allen White (pictured in 2013) portrays Springsteen in the biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025).

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Pond, Steve (October 28, 1982). "Nebraska". Rolling Stone. New York. Archived from the original on July 26, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
↑ Pareles, Jon (August 30, 1987). "Heartland Rock: Bruce's Children". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2016.

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[Pond-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Pond, Steve (October 28, 1982). "Nebraska". Rolling Stone. New York. Archived from the original on July 26, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2013.

[2] Pareles, Jon (August 30, 1987). "Heartland Rock: Bruce's Children". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2016.

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