Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 solo acoustic Nebraska album is getting an all-star tribute on PBS later this month.

Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska: A Celebration in Words and Music contains performances by Noah Kahan, Lucinda Williams and others. The particular is hosted by Warren Zanes, who printed Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska in 2023, and options interviews with artists who focus on the impression Nebraska has had on them.

The program begins airing on native PBS stations on Aug. 31 and continues all through September. A whole record of schedules could be discovered on the PBS web site.

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“I wrote a book about Nebraska because the recording stayed with me over decades,” Zanes notes in a press release announcing the special. “Every time there was trouble in my life I reached for Nebraska. When I started doing events around the book’s publication, I quickly realized the best of them had music. When I went to Nashville, I had a remarkable cast of musicians to help me tell this story.”

Nebraska, which was launched on Sept. 30, 1982, arrived two years after Springsteen had his first No. 1 album with The River. As he started work on his subsequent album with the E Street Band, the darkish and stripped-down music he was recording on a four-track tape machine in a New Jersey bed room appeared to work greatest on this stark setting.

Its dozen songs are a few of the most desolate of Springsteen’s lengthy profession, recounting tales of homicide, crime sprees and, in some instances, eventual redemption. The album has lengthy been a favourite of different artists and has turn out to be one among Springsteen’s most acclaimed information. (Upon its launch, Nebraska reached No. 3 on the chart.)

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In September 2023, Zanes hosted an occasion centered on the album in Nashville as a part of the annual Americanafest convention. As Zanes detailed the making of the album, performers performed its songs in entrance of the viewers. That program was recorded for the upcoming PBS particular.

Among the performers are Emmylou Harris (who covers “The Price You Pay” and “Nebraska”), Noah Kahan (“Atlantic City”), Lyle Lovett (“Used Cars,” and “My Father’s House”), the Lumineers (“Mansion on the Hill,” and “State Trooper”), Lucinda Williams (“Born in the U.S.A.,” recorded for Nebraska however left off the album and used on the same-named follow-up LP) and Eric Church, who performs the Born in the usA. tune “Dancing in the Dark.”

You can watch a trailer for the present beneath.