Join host Warren Zanes for an exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s classic album “Nebraska” with musical performances by Eric Church, Emmylou Harris, Noah Kahan, Lyle Lovett, The Lumineers, and Lucinda Williams
Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska: A Celebration in Words & Music airs Monday, September 2 at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV
Recorded on a four-track cassette in his New Jersey bedroom, Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska has proved to be one of his most enduring works, a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching not for salvation but simply a reason to believe. On September 19, 2023, at Analog at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville, famed music biographer Warren Zanes — author of Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska — hosted an in-depth exploration of the album and the musician’s process. Springsteen’s songs were performed by multiple legends in their own right, with Zanes’s spoken word storytelling in between. Filmed exclusively for PBS, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska: A CELEBRATION IN WORDS AND MUSIC is part of special programming premiering on PBS stations.