{"id":118504,"date":"2025-09-04T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118504\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:14:08","slug":"bruce-springsteen-unvaults-yet-another-mythic-album-electric-nebraska-listen-to-born-in-the-u-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118504\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen Unvaults Yet Another Mythic Album, Electric Nebraska: Listen to \u201cBorn in the U.S.A.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Springsteen<\/a> has announced<\/a> a Nebraska<\/a> expansion that includes the fabled Electric Nebraska sessions, released for the first time. Long sought-after by fans, Electric Nebraska is the informal title of the album that Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded, in 1982, from a suite of demos for his follow-up to The River<\/a>. But the Boss, preferring his originals, scrapped the full-band versions and instead released a selection of his stripped-down demos as Nebraska. Not all of them, though: Some were held back for his next album, Born in the U.S.A.<\/a> One was the title track, and below, you can hear the Electric Nebraska version<\/a> that might have been.<\/p>\n

Nebraska \u201982: Expanded Edition arrives October 17 as a 4xLP or 4xCD box set, which both come with a Blu-ray containing a Thom Zimny<\/a>\u2013directed video of the band performing Nebraska in full this year. (The audio is one of the four audio discs, too.) The other discs comprise a remaster of the original album and a collection of Nebraska home recordings, some unreleased, plus tracks from a 1982 solo studio session.<\/p>\n

On the version of \u201cBorn in the U.S.A.\u201d below, Max Weinberg and Garry Tallent back Springsteen. \u201cWe threw out the keyboards and played basically as a three-piece,\u201d Springsteen said in a press release. \u201cIt was kinda like punk rockabilly. We were trying to bring Nebraska into the electric world.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added of the live Nebraska rendition, \u201cI think in playing these songs again to be filmed, their weight impressed upon me. I\u2019ve written a lot of other narrative records, but there\u2019s just something about that batch of songs on Nebraska that holds some sort of magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Springsteen recently reissued<\/a> a series of mythic shelved records in the box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums<\/a>. His new biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a>, starring Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen, got its first trailer<\/a> in June. The movie, centering on the creation of Nebraska, arrives in theaters on October 25.<\/p>\n

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Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska \u201982: Expanded Edition<\/p>\n

Nebraska \u201982: Expanded Edition:<\/p>\n

01 Born in the U.S.A. (Demo Version – 1982)
02 Losin\u2019 Kind (Nebraska Outtakes)
03 Downbound Train (Nebraska Outtakes)
04 Child Bride (Nebraska Outtakes)
05 Pink Cadillac (Nebraska Outtakes)
06 The Big Payback (Single B-side – 1982)
07 Working on the Highway (Nebraska Outtakes)
08 On the Prowl (Nebraska Outtakes)
09 Gun in Every Home (Nebraska Outtakes)<\/p>\n