“The River Collection“, it features the originally planned single album of the titular track – which was then titled as “The Ties That Bind” – 11 tracks worth of previously unreleased outtakes, a documentary, a concert video, and additional 10 songs from the era that were released on previous box sets.
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The set, coming December 4, is available for pre-order at Amazon, for 9.98.
“The River”, released in October 1980, was Springsteen s first album to reach number one on the U.S. chart.
The Boss announced a massive box set dedicated to the making of his seminal 1980 double album The River.
The new track is one of 52 songs set to be included in the box set, which will also contain four hours of previously unseen archival and live performance footage.
The previous year, Springsteen recorded a standard-length album but discarded it, explaining later that it “lacked the kind of unity and conceptual intensity I liked my music to have”. “So we went back in the studio”.
The New Jersey singer will also include a new 60-minute documentary entitled “The Ties That Bind”, in which he will detail the tumultuous writing and recording process behind the album.
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Two DVDs feature newly edited, multi-camera footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band concert shot in Tempe, Arizona, during a 1980 concert, as well as 20 minutes of band rehearsal footage. A 148-page coffee table book with 200 rare photos is also part of the set.
