The long-awaited special edition of Bruce Springsteen’s 1980 classic double-album The River will hit stores on December 4. The Ties That Bind: The River Collection will include the original album, outtakes, a documentary, a never-before seen concert, and more. The project sets out to document an important era in Springsteen’s career with 52 tracks on four CDs and four hours of never-before-seen video on three DVDs.
In advance of the box set, Springsteen has released one of the songs, “Meet Me In The City.” Check it out.
One of the CDs in the set will be The River: Single Album, which is is the ten-track album that Springsteen recorded in 1979 but never released. At the time, Springsteen believed that the album lacked “unity and conceptual intensity,” so he took the band back into the recording studio. Seven of the tracks did end up on the official release of The River, some in alternate versions. But it will be cool to hear the album first conceptualized as the follow-up to Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978).
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