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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Bruce Springsteen to release fabled electric version of 1982 album Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen, pictured around the release of 1982's Nebraska.
Bruce Springsteen, pictured around the release of 1982's Nebraska. Photograph: PR

One of the great lost albums in rock history is to finally see the light of day, as Bruce Springsteen announces the release of the electric version of his 1982 album Nebraska.

The original was famously recorded in the bedroom of his New Jersey home, unaccompanied, on a four-track tape recorder rather than a multitrack studio setup. Springsteen attempted to work the songs up into more fleshed-out versions but felt the studio versions lacked the ghostly drama of the originals, and – to some confusion in his fanbase and record label – insisted on releasing the stark four-track takes.

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