The album that Bruce Springsteen fans would like to listen

In April 1982, Bruce Springsteen and the And street band They met at the Power Station Studio in the center of Manhattan, in New York, to record the sequel to the fifth album of the New Jersey musician, “The River” (Read the review here). Springsteen had already recorded the demos of the songs at home and was enthusiastic to give body to his acoustic recordings with his band.

In his 2016 autobiography ‘Born to Run’ The boss wrote: “The songs were the opposite of the rock I had written. They were sober, still superficial, with an underlying world of moral ambiguity and discomfort. The tension that crossed the core of music was the subtle line between stability and that moment in which the things that connect you to your world, to your work, your family, to the friends, love and grace in your heart, I would like you to see Open and moved like a poem.

After two months in the studio, in June 1982, Springsteen began to mix both the acoustic sessions and those with the complete band. Years later, in 1999, at the Mojo magazine he declared that he was perplexed on what to do: “I had two extremely different registration experiences in mind. I intended to publish them simultaneously as a double record. I didn’t know what to do.” In the end, Bruce Springsteen He decided that the recordings with the full band were not exactly what he wanted. Always in the Memoir ‘Born to Run’ He reported: “Listening to him, I realized that I could not do anything but ruin what I had created. We managed to make everything play in a cleaner, more hi-fi.”

In a 2010 interview with Rolling Stone, the drummer of the And Street Band Max Weinberg He stated that the electrical versions of “Nebraska”, “were all very tough. As far as they were, it was not what Bruce wanted to publish.” In a recent interview with the Times, Weinberg always says he “hopes that one day the songs of the electrical sessions will be published. This legend that were not well played, but we played them great. I know that the songs have been recorded, the songs are there, so I hope that one day ‘Electric Nebraska’ will see the light”.

Like Weinberg also fans of Bruce Springsteen One day they wish to listen to the other version of “Nebraska” (Read the review here). While waiting they will be able to enjoy “Tracks II: The Lost Albums”a collection of seven complete and unpublished discs of Springsteen made between 1983 and 2018, which boasts 74 songs never listened to before. In this regard, the boss explained: “‘The lost albums’ were complete records, some of which even mixed and never published. I have played this music for myself and often for the closest friends for years. I am happy that you will finally have the opportunity to listen to them. I hope you like them”.