NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremy Allen White grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen. He doesn’t even remember a time in his life when he wasn’t aware of his music. But sing his songs? It wasn’t until White began preparing to play the rock ’n' roll legend for “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” that he even tried.

“I had never really sang anything, never mind Bruce,” White says. “There was a leap of faith that we were all taking.”

There’s an established playbook for music biopics. “Deliver Me From Nowhere” ignored all of it. The film, written and directed by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart,” “Black Mass”), eschews the standard life-spanning, play-the-hits approach and instead focuses on a small portion of Springsteen’s sprawling life: the making of his 1982 album, “Nebraska.”

The album, a minimalist

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