PHILADELPHIA — You thought you already had all the Bruce Springsteen unreleased album box sets you needed? Think again.

Earlier this year, Springsteen released "Tracks II: The Lost Albums," a box set that includes seven previously unreleased albums in their entirety, recorded between 1983 and 2018.

Now, the Boss has pulled one more box of previously unissued material out of his vault.

On Oct. 17, he’ll release "Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition," which will include the "Electric Nebraska" sessions in which the solitary, stripped down songs on his album "Nebraska" were recorded with a plugged-in band, with an approach that Springsteen calls “punk rockabilly.”

“We were trying to bring 'Nebraska' into the electric world," he said in a press release.

The box will also include a “Nebraska Outtakes” disc with nine songs, including alternative versions of the "Born in the U.S.A." title track and three other songs from that 1984 album, plus more obscure rarities such as “On the Prowl” and “Gun In Every Home,” which were recorded in separate sessions in 1982.

The five-disc set available on LP and CD will also include a remastered version of the original "Nebraska" album, which Springsteen composed while under the influence of Flannery O’Connor and killer Charlie Starkweather. He famously recorded it on a four track tape machine in his Colts Neck, New Jersey, bedroom on a cassette in his jacket pocket before the decision was made to issue the album as-is.

The box also includes a newly recorded live album and Blu-ray of Springsteen performing the 10 "Nebraska" songs in sequence at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey, which he has never done in the 43 years since the album was released.

Not coincidentally, the "Nebraska" box will come out one week before the wide release of "Deliver Me From Nowhere," Scott Cooper’s unorthodox Springsteen biopic starring Jeremy Allen White that chronicles the making of "Nebraska" and is based on Warren Zanes book of the same title. The movie, which also stars Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s longtime manager Jon Landau, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Labor Day weekend.

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