Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’ to get expanded reissue

Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition features previously unreleased material and a Blu-ray album performance film

Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska will be explored with more context and depth than ever before this fall, with the release of a five-disc box set featuring many never-before-heard and previously undiscovered recordings. Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition will arrive on October 17th from Sony Music, and include The E Street Band’s fabled “Electric Nebraska” sessions and solo outtakes from the era, as well as a newly shot performance film of Nebraska in its entirety – and a 2025 remaster of the original album. Together, they represent a wholly unprecedented look into the sonic world of this improbable lo-fi masterpiece turned enduring Springsteen classic.

The set is previewed with a previously unreleased version of “Born in the U.S.A” (which was originally written alongside Nebraska), featuring Springsteen backed by Max Weinberg and Garry Tallent, in a trio rendition from late April 1982. “We threw out the keyboards and played basically as a three-piece,” Springsteen reflected. “It was kinda like punk rockabilly. We were trying to bring Nebraska into the electric world.”

In addition to “Electric Nebraska” — which features Tallent, Weinberg, Danny Federici, Roy Bittan and Stevie Van Zandt — the set’s collection of “Nebraska Outtakes” unearths Springsteen solo rarities including more songs from the original Nebraska home recordings (“Losin’ Kind,” “Child Bride,” “Downbound Train”) and tracks from a one-off 1982 solo studio session (“Gun In Every Home,” “On the Prowl”). Also included is a present-day performance film of the Nebraska album – played in sequence for the first time and captured at New Jersey’s Count Basie Theatre by Thom Zimny. Having never toured behind the album, Springsteen revisits the material more than 40 years later.

“I think in playing these songs again to be filmed, their weight impressed upon me,” Springsteen says. “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.”

One week after the release of Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition, the feature film Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere will arrive in theaters from 20th Century Studios on October 24th and chronicles the making of Springsteen’s Nebraska. Directed by Scott Cooper and adapted by Cooper from Warren Zanes’ Deliver Me From Nowhere, the film stars Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen and Jeremy Strong as his longtime manager and producer Jon Landau, alongside Stephen Graham, Odessa Young, Paul Walter Hauser, Gaby Hoffman, Marc Maron, and David Krumholtz.

CD 1: Nebraska Outtakes

1. Born in the U.S.A.
2. Losin’ Kind
3. Downbound Train
4. Child Bride
5. Pink Cadillac
6. The Big Payback
7. Working on the Highway
8. On the Prowl
9. Gun in Every Home

CD 2: Electric Nebraska

1. Nebraska
2. Atlantic City
3. Mansion on the Hill
4. Johnny 99
5. Downbound Train
6. Open All Night
7. Born in the U.S.A.
8. Reason to Believe

CD 3: Nebraska (Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ)

1. Nebraska
2. Atlantic City
3. Mansion on the Hill
4. Johnny 99
5. Highway Patrolman
6. State Trooper
7. Used Cars
8. Open All Night
9. My Father’s House
10. Reason To Believe

CD 4: 2025 Remaster

1. Nebraska
2. Atlantic City
3. Mansion on the Hill
4. Johnny 99
5. Highway Patrolman
6. State Trooper
7. Used Cars
8. Open All Night
9. My Father’s House
10. Reason To Believe

Blu-ray: Nebraska (Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ)

1. Nebraska
2. Atlantic City
3. Mansion on the Hill
4. Johnny 99
5. Highway Patrolman
6. State Trooper
7. Used Cars
8. Open All Night
9. My Father’s House
10. Reason To Believe