Many of us would like to know where great art comes from and at what cost, but the enduring relevance of that insoluble riddle doesn’t quite answer: Who is the muted melodrama Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere for? Bruce Springsteen diehards? The emotional crisis dramatized here is old news to us. Bruce agnostics? Can’t imagine they’d bother, given the diceyness of music biopics in the post-Walk Hard era. Audio geeks? This movie certainly is a love letter to the TEAC 144 Portastudio.

For fans, the origins of 1982’s lo-fi masterpiece Nebraska is one of the key Stations of the Boss: Recorded quickly on that primitive four-track in the bedroom of rental house in Colts Neck, New Jersey, the album’s collection of crime stories, confessionals, and pleas for mercy was meant to serve as a set

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