Produced for $1,050 (which was the cost of a four-track Tascam recorder) in 1981, "Atlantic City" by Bruce Springsteen was recorded in three takes, the last of which ended up on his 1982 solo album, ...

Bruce Springsteen's shift away from rock and roll in the early 1980s produced one of his most introspective and haunting albums, Nebraska, and featured a song that would come to define 1980s folk rock ...