Or should we say the holy grain? Bruce Springsteen is officially dropping Electric Nebraska, the mythic full-band electric recordings of the songs that became his 1982 solo album named after the Cornhusker State. Six E Street Band versions of songs from the Nebraska track list will be included on the newly announced Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition box set, along with full-band renditions of “Born in the U.S.A.” and “Downbound Train” (which were recorded during the same sessions, but later rerecorded for his 1984 album, Born in the U.S.A). Springsteen had previously shot down decades’ of fan hopes that material from these electric sessions had survived, but randomly texted Rolling Stone this summer that he’d stumbled across them while checking his vault.
The Electric Nebraska version of “Born in the U.S.A.” is already out now, but the rest of the five-disc set — which also includes a 2025 remastered version of Nebraska, acoustic outtakes, unreleased songs, and a newly recorded live performance of the album — is set to drop on October 17. Jeremy Allen White will then relive Springsteen’s process of recording Nebraska in the Scott Cooper biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, out October 24. Basically, Springsteen fans will have plenty of content about the album to consume next month. Call it a fall harvest?
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