Bruce Springsteen‘s “Nebraska” begins with a fictionalized bit of court testimony, delivered by mass murderer Charles Starkweather to the judge who’s about to sentence him to death. “I saw her standin’ on her front lawn, just a’twirlin’ her baton,” Springsteen sings, coloring his voice with a folksy accent that’s far more evocative of the American […]
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