The soundtrack to Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere starring Jeremy Allen White has been announced.
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The movie, which charts the period in The Boss’ life when he recorded his sixth album ‘Nebraska’ (1982), is due to arrive in cinemas this Friday (October 24).
Now, the soundtrack, which has been confirmed for a December 5 release, sees Allen White cover a host of classics from the record along with huge hits ‘Born In The U.S.A.’ and ‘I’m On Fire’.
It also closes with covers of two songs that Springsteen and the E Street Band tend to play – Little Richard’s ‘Lucille’ and John Lee Hooker’s ‘Boom Boom’ along with the never-performed-publicly, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ ‘I Put A Spell On You’.
The album includes additional contributions from Rival Sons‘ Jay Buchanan, Aksel Coe, Bobby Emmett, and Greta Van Fleet’s Jake and Sam F. Kiszka, who all appear in the film.
The full tracklisting for Springsteen: Deliver From Nowhere is:
1. Jeremy Allen White: ‘Born In The U.S.A. (Power Station)’
2. Jeremy Allen White: ‘Nebraska’
3. Jeremy Allen White: ‘Atlantic City’
4. Jeremy Allen White: ‘Mansion On The Hill’
5. Jeremy Allen White: ‘Highway Patrolman’
6. Jeremy Allen White: ‘State Trooper’
7. Jeremy Allen White: ‘My Father’s House’
8. Jeremy Allen White: ‘Reason To Believe’
9. Jeremy Allen White: ‘I’m On Fire’
10. Jay Buchanan / Jake Kiszka / Sam F. Kiszka / Aksel Coe / Bobby Emmett / Jeremy Allen White: ‘Lucille’
11. Jay Buchanan / Jake Kiszka / Sam F. Kiszka / Aksel Coe / Bobby Emmett / Jeremy Allen White: ‘Boom Boom’
12. Jay Buchanan / Jake Kiszka / Sam F. Kiszka / Aksel Coe / Bobby Emmett: ‘I Put A Spell On You’
Allen White recently spoke about learning the songs for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere on a guitar sent to him by The Boss himself.
“I think I learned on about the nicest guitar anybody’s ever learned to play the guitar on. Bruce sent me a really beautiful guitar – a 1955 Gibson J200, which was the closest model to the guitar that [Springsteen played],” he said.
“So I got to learning on that one, and I learned with this wonderful guitarist, JD Simone, and he was in Nashville, and I was getting together with him on Zoom, you know, four, five, six times a week to prepare. And the first time we hopped on, I said, ‘Hey, I’m so excited to learn how to play the guitar with you’. And he said, ‘We don’t have time to learn how to play the guitar. We have time to learn these five Bruce songs!’ And so I learned the guitar in a very strange way.”
Springsteen also praised the The Bear actor’s playing, adding: “He plays and sings the ‘Nebraska’ song really, really beautifully and very credibly. It’s fun to watch.”
Recently, the director of the film, Scott Cooper, promised that the film will have “new information to even his most ardent fans. Allen White also revealed he didn’t seek out advice from other biopic stars such as Timothée Chalamet or Austin Butler.
Reviewing the movie, NME awarded it four stars and said: “The film isn’t flawless; Stephen Graham’s ageing make-up in the 1982 sequences, when he and his son reconnect, is jarring. But this is a rare misstep in an otherwise unvarnished film about the price of artistic integrity.
“Those 10 tracks on ‘Nebraska’ become a lifeline for Springsteen, described as “the only thing I can still believe in” at a point where his inner world was imploding. What Deliver Me From Nowhere shows well is just how commercial success was a distant second to Springsteen – a man who had no choice but to rip those ‘Nebraska’ songs from his wounded heart.”
