Charged
One of the things I'm thinking about doing next week during furlough or free time (depending how HR resolves it) is compiling a best-of Lost Masters, the many-many-disc Springsteen studio bootleg set (that has its own best-of set but not my best-of set). This song is one that came up recently in a Max Weinberg interview. Weinberg tells Rolling Stone that "Electric Nebraska," the Holy Grail of Brucelegs, the E Street Band amped-up recordings of the starkly acoustic Nebraska album, exists.
He cites White Lies as one of the songs from the sessions, which — I hate to say it — undercuts his memory. The song actually comes from The River sessions. But whatever. We now have more claims Electric Nebraska exists, and we know White Lies exists and rocks. The lyrics show up later in the mediocre Mary Lou and the decent Be True, and neither does as good a job of fitting this morning, which is fired up.
