Ah, good call. You can buy it in CD form as Dave’s Picks Vol. 5.

You gotta wonder how many aging CD players are kept in service just for that line of non-streaming Grateful Dead official releases.

Yeah you save that announcement for after the smooth landing.

So yeah, Nebraska still delivers.

This album is so much more engaging than I remembered!I’ve come to think of it as cold and beautiful, something to admire but not get swallowed by.

It doesn’t demand as much work from the listener as I’d thought (and as someone who only knew of it from Scott Cooper’s film would probably assume.)

And the closer, Reason To Believe is strummed at mid-tempo.

Bruce likens our quests to wrest meaning from the universe to poking a dead dog with a stick.

And then this final verse …

“My father's house shines hard and bright/
It stands like a beacon calling me in the night/
Calling and calling so cold and alone:
Shining 'cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned”

Just great stuff all around. 👏

He swings for the fences w/ My Father’s House. What a track.

In the style of a folk ballad w/no refrain, in a hypnotizing performance, he relates a vision (dream), then a gut-punch scene.

“I told her my story and who I'd come for/
She said "I'm sorry son but no one by that name lives here anymore"

The couplet that does double duty on State Trooper and Open All Night is bumpersticker rock (celebratory)

“In the wee, wee hours, your mind gets hazy

Radio relay towers, won't you lead me to my baby?”