WIZM - La Crosse Talk Interviews
Oct 16, 2026 · 9 min · 9 segments
Nebraska represents Bruce Springsteen's musical and personal retreat to record Nebraska. Zane speaks to LaCrosseTalk host Sean Dwyer about the mythology of Nebraska and his days in Madison. See…
Warren ZanesGuestSean DwyerHostIt sort of, um, I'm gonna use a term here, it kinda democratized the process of creating music, and it was also revolutionary.
It was, it marked the, the first time that you could do multi-track recording at home.
And what the, what the Teac 144 marked was a chance to not just throw down one track, but you could put down a guitar and a vocal, and then you could put a second guitar, and then you could put percussion, and then you could put a harmony vocal.
And for Springsteen, he'd been spending a lot of money in commercial studios and, you know, there he was renting a ranch house after having had a number one record, and he, he wanted to save some money.
I mean, the, the mythology of Nebraska is, is deep because people, and, and I count myself among them, you know, why did I write this book? I, I still could not figure out why an artist in Springsteen's position would do what he did, would put out such a rough recording.
A lot of people on the musician side of things start to question whether they need to use commercial recording studios.
And then the digital revolution comes and really kind of pushes that even further down the playing field, where it's now more typical that people do record at home than they don't.
It sort of, um, I'm gonna use a term here, it kinda democratized the process of creating music, and it was also revolutionary.
It was, it marked the, the first time that you could do multi-track recording at home.
And what the, what the Teac 144 marked was a chance to not just throw down one track, but you could put down a guitar and a vocal, and then you could put a second guitar, and then you could put percussion, and then you could put a harmony vocal.
And for Springsteen, he'd been spending a lot of money in commercial studios and, you know, there he was renting a ranch house after having had a number one record, and he, he wanted to save some money.
I mean, the, the mythology of Nebraska is, is deep because people, and, and I count myself among them, you know, why did I write this book? I, I still could not figure out why an artist in Springsteen's position would do what he did, would put out such a rough recording.
A lot of people on the musician side of things start to question whether they need to use commercial recording studios.
And then the digital revolution comes and really kind of pushes that even further down the playing field, where it's now more typical that people do record at home than they don't.
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