Interview: Jim Sampas discusses "Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska"
to be released soon


Jim Sampas, where were you when Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" first came out?


Mr. JIM SAMPAS (Producer): I was living in Lowell, Massachusetts.
I would have been about 17 years old, and I actually bought it I think either
that day or the day after it came out. I didn't know what to make of it at first.
I thought it was very strange really, I mean, not like anything else he had ever done.
And it's almost as if it's a documentary, just a realness that I think fits the stories.

(Soundbite of "Nebraska")

Mr. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: (Singing) I saw her standin' on her front lawn just
a twirlin' her baton

HANSEN: In 1982, after five albums of big, powerful arena-sized rock
'n' roll, Bruce Springsteen made a dramatic change. The Boss sat and played
solo acoustic guitar in his New Jersey bedroom and recorded himself onto a four-track
tape machine. That demo tape, when mastered to vinyl, became "Nebraska." This dark and
spare album was a challenge to Springsteen's many longtime fans, but in the almost two
decades since its release, it has influenced a new generation of singers and songwriters.
Producer Jim Sampas called some of those devotees together to contribute to a new CD. Such
artists as Ani DiFranco, Aimee Mann, Los Lobos, Ben Harper and others, can now be heard on
"Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska," which comes out this Tuesday on the Sub
Pop label.
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