Bruce Springsteen's to Release 'Electric Nebraska' on new box set

Bruce Springsteen originally intended the home-recorded, solo-acoustic performances that became Nebraska to be demos for the E Street Band , and at New York City’s Power Station studio in 1982, he and the band laid down versions of most of its songs. The so-called Electric Nebraska tracks have never been heard, even on bootleg — but Springsteen is about to change that with a new box set, Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition , due Oct. 17, a week before the Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere hits theaters.

The Electric Nebraska disc includes seven E Street Band takes on the album’s material, plus a wildcard — a fierce, guitar-dominated electric version of “Born in the U.S.A.,” a song originally recorded acoustically as part of the Nebraska sessions. That track, which