Springsteen to finally release electric version of 1982 album Nebraska

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

- Ben Beaumont-Thomas

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

Despite the move away from the full-bodied sound of the hit albums Born to Run and The River, Nebraska reached No 3 in the US and the UK and is considered to be one of his most distinctive and influential albums.

Springsteen said as recently as June that the electric versions did not exist: "I have no recollection of it, but I can tell you there's nothing in our vault that would amount to an electric Nebraska," he told