Zanes has evidently been thinking about Nebraska since he first encountered it.

Wonderful.

Zanes... makes you feel Springsteen’s implacable determination.

Zanes builds a strong case for the album’s singularity, achievement, and influence.

Zanes traces how the album’s punk rock spirit pushed back against the industry’s preferred polished sound to become a chart-topping success, and delivers the narrative in energetic prose that makes his enthusiasm for his subject palpable..