Over forty years after its release, Bruce Springsteen’s seminal 1982 album “Nebraska” continues to feel prescient and powerful. Long beloved by music critics and Springsteen devotees, the record has seen a resurgence with director Scott Cooper’s recent biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” which explores the singer’s spiritual pain and struggle with depression while he was making “Nebraska.”

With stark songs about a mournful and lost working class serving a broken American dream accompanied by despair and violence, “Nebraska” could serve the album is a soundtrack to our age of Trump — and to the country’s long-unresolved demons that brought the American people to this great nadir.

Like the desperate characters that populate “Nebraska,” tens of millions of Americans are being tol

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