Do you remember over the way there was a thread about which albums had influenced your musical tastes? I was just reading an interview with Elvis Costello when he mentioned that two of his influences were two of mine - Motown Chartbusters Vol 3 and Tighten Up Vol 2. Made me feel quite proud of my influences!
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Nebraska was a big influence on Southern Highway Gospel Companion. Mostly it was the sound of the album, I tried hard to create a feeling of space and wide openness and a muted tension that I hear in the record. As far as the songs, the influence was on the dialogue, trying to write the simple way people speak and to use fine details rather than wordy descriptions.
The feeling I tried to convey in First Boy on the Moon is the same endless summer day that I hear on Born To Run.