Bruce Springsteen returned to the New Jersey bedroom where he recorded much of 'Nebraska' for a new interview with 'CBS Sunday Morning'
“If I had to pick one album out and say ‘This is going to represent you 50 years from now,’ I’d pick“I just hit some sort of personal wall that I didn’t even know was there. It was my first real major depression where I realized ‘Oh, I gotta do something about it.'”The River
boasted what became his biggest hit at the time, “Hungry Heart.” Two years later, Springsteen retreated to the rented lake house for inspiration, where — while channel-surfing one night — he stumbled on Terence Malick’s, a fictionalized retelling of the story of Nebraska-born spree killer Charles Starkweather.
“I actually called the reporter who reported on that story in Nebraska, and amazingly enough she was still at the newspaper, and she was a lovely woman, and we talked for a half hour or so,” Springsteen told Axelrod. “It just sort of focused me on the feeling of what I wanted to write about.”in the very same bedroom Springsteen revisited over 41 years later. Noting the bedroom’s acoustics, Springsteen joked, “The orange shag carpet makes it really dead.
; during the interview, Zanes and Springsteen go rummaging through the dozens of notebooks the singer filled with lyrics.
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