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Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska (Columbia 38358)

Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 October 1982

IN AN ARTISTICALLY daring move virtually unprecedented in the record business, Bruce Springsteen refused to succumb to pressures to follow up the No. 1 success of his last album, The River, with anything that even remotely resembled his breakthrough double-record set of two years ago.

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