Bruce Springsteen announces ‘Electric Nebraska’ featuring unheard tracks
Bruce Springsteen will finally release the Electric Nebraska sessions as part of a Nebraska expansion with a five-disc box set including several never-before-heard tracks.
Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition is set to arrive on October 17th via Sony Music and includes The E Street Band’s Electric Nebraska sessions and solo outtakes from the era.
The new release will also include a newly shot performance film of Nebraska and a 2025 remaster of the original album, providing an all-encompassing and unprecedented look into the world of a Springsteen classic.
To celebrate the announcement, Springsteen and team have released a new version of ‘Born in the USA,’ originally written alongside Nebraska. The newly released recording features Springsteen backed by Max Weinberg and Garry Tallent, in a rendition from April 1982.
Springsteen reflected on the new sound, stating, “We threw out the keyboards and played basically as a three-piece. It was kinda like punk rockabilly. We were trying to bring ‘Nebraska’ into the electric world.”
He then expanded upon the live Nebraska rendition too, sharing, “I think in playing these songs again to be filmed, their weight impressed upon me. I’ve written a lot of other narrative records, but there’s just something about that batch of songs on Nebraska that holds some sort of magic.”
The release is in tandem with the new Jeremy Allen White fronted Springsteen biopic, Deliver Me From Nowehere. The film is set to premiere at the New York Film Festival later this month, ahead of a cinematic release on October 18th, 2025.
The release lines up with the subject matter of the new film, with Springsteen previously sharing, “It’s really not a biopic — it just takes a couple years out of my life when I was 31 and 32 and looks at them really at a time when I made this particular record (Nebraska), and when I went through some just difficult places in my life, you know. And, I’m old and I don’t give a fuck what I do now.”
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