{"id":340,"date":"2005-09-07T19:44:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T19:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/09\/badlands_a_tribute\/"},"modified":"2005-09-07T19:44:12","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T19:44:12","slug":"badlands_a_tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/09\/badlands_a_tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Badlands – A Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve run into several songs from the album Badlands – A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska<\/a> and as a collection I’ve enjoyed the songs as much as I’ve always enjoyed the original album. So I bought it. Finishing the first listen, I can tell it will be one of my favorites. Much like the Elton John \/ Bernie Taupin tribute album Two Rooms<\/a>, the variety of artists makes for a great listen.<\/p>\n

I don’t know why Nebraska<\/a> has always been one of my favorite albums. It is as much a demo record in that Springsteen recorded the songs in 4 track for what he intended to be a full band album, but he liked the raw sound enough that he published the songs mostly recorded in his home.<\/p>\n

The Badlands tribute, at Springsteen’s request, were also recorded in 4 track. I particularly like Crooked Fingers’ Mansion On The Hill, Dar Williams’ Highway Patrolman, Deana Carter’s State Trooper, Ani DiFranco’s Used Cars, and Aimee Mann & Michael Penn’s Reason To Believe. Ben Harper’s My Father’s House is probably my favorite.<\/p>\n

There’s not a bad song or artist rendition on the album.<\/p>\n

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Now playing<\/a>: My Father’s House<\/strong> by Ben Harper<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve run into several songs from the album Badlands – A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska and as a collection I’ve enjoyed the songs as much as I’ve always enjoyed the original album. So I bought it. Finishing the first … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}