1 of 3 | Bruce Springsteen performs with his E Street band in June. He released a new box set of his “Nebraska” album on Friday. File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
Bruce Springsteen is giving an inside look into the making of his iconic album Nebraska ’82.
The music artist, 76, discussed the making of the album Monday in a featurette promoting the recently released expanded edition.
“The process of spending time in the studio with the band, while having the actual album on a small, case-less cassette was very confusing,” he recalled in the clip. “I really couldn’t quite wrap my head around the fact that this little cassette tape I’d made in my bedroom was going to be the actual record.”
The box set, released Friday, features five discs.
“This is a collection that fans have wished for, longed for, begged for, more than any other recordings in Bruce Springsteen’s entire cannon,” said essayist Erik Flannigan in the featurette. “We get the remastered version of Bruce’s masterpiece of an album, and then electric Nebraska — eight songs nobody’s ever heard before. We get the additional acoustic material from the original Nebraska sessions. We get the film — Bruce playing every song from the album from start to finish — and then an essay that walks you through the history of the recording, as well as Bruce’s responses to hearing this material again…”
The new music arrives just before Springsteen’s biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere opens in theaters.
The film, starring Jeremy Allen White as the famed singer, plays in theaters Friday.
“He captured what I do, particularly on stage, which was pretty amazing and the singing was so good,” Springsteen said on Jimmy Kimmel Live of White’s performance.
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Bruce Springsteen opened the four-concert finale to his 15 month tour at the Coliseum in Los Angeles with the hit song “Born in the U.S.A,” on September 27, 1985. UPI Photos | License Photo
