"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?"
Bruce Springsteen asked this question in his song "The River," and answered it a few years later on the 1982 album Nebraska - a picture of social isolation bred from economic despair. The characters in "Atlantic City," "Johnny 99," "Highway Patrolman," and the title track - based on the 1958 killing spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate - are people with "debts no honest man can pay," people for whom the American dream, ever-unattainable, has become a taunt. Separated from community, family, even themselves, their acts mirror "the meanness in this world," bring on fatal consequences, yet may stand as their only known moments of freedom.
Never more relevant, Nebraska will be performed in its entirety by San Francisco folk-rock duo McCabe & Mrs. Miller - a.k.a. Victor Krummenacher (Camper Van Beethoven; The Monks of Doom) and Alison Faith Levy (The Loud Family; The Sippy Cups).
An evening of essential listening for anyone born in the U.S.A.
FREE. Wheelchair accessible. Refreshments served.
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