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The myth of 'Nebraska' is that it's a masterpiece, but the album has almost nothing to do with what people have loved about Bruce for 50 years.

Bruce Springsteen's 1982 lo-fi classic “Nebraska,” recorded in the bederoom of his former Lincroft home on a four-track home recorder, was written and recorded as Springsteen was in the midst of a deep psychological crisis.

The standout track in that latter mode is a previously unreleased version of Born in the USA, which wouldn't sound out of place on a Hüsker Dü or early Replacements record. It suggests an alternate reality where Springsteen abandoned his desire for mainstream success in favour of a major cult career à la Neil Young.

The new Boss biopic robs his music of its mythic American qualities.

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,' which stars Jeremy Allen White, is focused on the making of Springsteen's 1982 solo record 'Nebraska'.

Bruce has always written like a filmmaker. His songs are filled with landscapes, characters, and frames that feel right out of American cinema. In Nebraska, that cinematic quality becomes more stark. It's a series of black-and-white images stripped of spectacle. Every song plays like a short film.

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is a mostly self-contained effort that meticulously catalogues the artist's change in outlook during the creation of Nebraska. But Bruce Springsteen being a talented artist,