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LISTEN TO A NEVER-HEARD TRIO RECORDING OF ‘BORN IN THE U.S.A.’ FROM THE ‘ELECTRIC NEBRASKA’ SESSIONS ‘SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE’ FEATURE FILM COMES TO THEATERS EVERYWHERE ON OCT. 24 Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska” will be explored with more context and depth than ever before this fall, with the release of a five-disc box set featuring many never-before-heard and previously-undiscovered recordings. …

Bruce Springsteen originally intended the home-recorded, solo-acoustic performances that became Nebraska to be demos for the E Street Band, and at New York City’s Power Station studio in 1982, he and the band laid down versions of most of its songs. The so-called Electric Nebraska tracks have never been heard, even on bootleg — but Springsteen is about to change …

It was a late spring night in 1971 and David Sancious had walked from his home on E Street in Belmar, New Jersey to the Upstage club in Asbury Park. He was 17 and he had been playing piano and guitar with local bands for four years. “I had walked to the Upstage because I wanted to play,” he says, …