"After spending literal years in the studio for his previous records, this time he walked in with finished songs. The cassette tape that he had carried around in his pocket got turned into a classic, five-star record of desolate modern folk songs about the dark side of the American dream. Surely, many fans believed, there had to be other versions of these songs that sounded more like the Springsteen they knew and loved."
"In June 2025, Springsteen sat down with a journalist from Rolling Stone who asked: What about Electric Nebraska? Springsteen replied: I can tell you right now it doesn't exist. The question seemed to be settled, until the interview was published, and the writer got off a plane to find a text from a New Jersey area code. It read, Bruce Springsteen here I checked our vault and there IS an Electric Nebraska record though it does not have the full album of songs!"
For over 40 years fans believed in Electric Nebraska, the supposed full-band versions of songs from Springsteen's 1982 solo acoustic album Nebraska. The original Nebraska recordings were bedroom demos captured on a cassette that became a stark, acclaimed folk record about the dark side of the American dream. Rumours persisted that E Street Band versions were recorded but unreleased. In June 2025 Springsteen denied the existence of Electric Nebraska, yet a subsequent text from a New Jersey number revealed a vault copy that lacks the full album of songs. Electric Nebraska will be included in Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition, released 24 October to coincide with the Deliver Me from Nowhere biopic.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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