Matthew Bizer’s Reviews > Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska > Status Update

“To me, Nebraska is an album-length description of how America has struggled to find its soul, has never had much of an identity beyond the brand that's been sold over and over again to people living here. But lives are lived behind the brand, and Springsteen is unearthing them, exposing them to the light.” - Patty Griffin

“That idea of a mansion on the hill […] is potent and finds a lot of people slaving away so there can be the one guy with that house. That's what America is like. That's the toxification of this American dream. We have enough resources here for everyone, but as long as we're all dreaming of the mansion… shit. But we think about it differently when it's seen through a child's eyes.” - Matt Berninger

“Nebraska was unfinished, imperfect, delivered into a world hovering at the threshold of the digital, when technology would allow recorded music to hang itself on perfect time, carry perfect pitch, but also risk losing its connection to the unfixed and unfixable.”