More than four decades after Bruce Springsteen recorded Nebraska alone on a four-track cassette recorder in his New Jersey bedroom, the stark masterpiece is getting its most definitive look yet. Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition collects unheard material, long-rumored sessions with the E Street Band, and a newly filmed performance of the entire album.

The five-disc box set, available in both 4LP/Blu-ray and 4CD/Blu-ray configurations, features 17 additional tracks from the prolific period, 15 of which are previously unreleased. Among them is the fabled Electric Nebraska, recorded with the full E Street Band, and solo outtakes that trace Springsteen’s restless creative spirit at the dawn of the 1980s. It also includes a 2025 remaster of the original album and a new film capturing Springsteen performing all ten Nebraska songs live, in sequence, for the first time.

A newly unveiled recording of “Born in the U.S.A.” which preceded the collection, reveals how the song’s early version once shared the same haunted landscape as Nebraska. “We threw out the keyboards and played basically as a three-piece,” Springsteen said of the 1982 session with Max Weinberg and Garry Tallent. “It was kinda like punk rockabilly. We were trying to bring Nebraska into the electric world.”

The set also resurrects songs from Springsteen’s original home tapes including “Losin’ Kind,” “Child Bride,” and “Downbound Train,” along with rarities from a rare solo studio session such as “Gun In Every Home” and “On the Prowl.” The accompanying concert film, directed by longtime collaborator Thom Zimny and shot at New Jersey’s Count Basie Theatre, captures Springsteen returning to these songs with a new perspective. “Their weight impressed upon me,” he said. “I’ve written a lot of other narrative records, but there’s just something about that batch of songs on Nebraska that holds some sort of magic.”

The release coincides with Deliver Me From Nowhere, a major motion picture chronicling the making of Nebraska. Directed by Scott Cooper and adapted from Warren Zanes’ acclaimed book, the film stars Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen and Jeremy Strong as manager and producer Jon Landau, along with Stephen Graham, Odessa Young, Paul Walter Hauser, Gaby Hoffman, Marc Maron, and David Krumholtz.

Together, the box set and the film pull back the curtain on one of Springsteen’s most mythologized chapters when a handful of ghostly cassette recordings from the quiet of his New Jersey bedroom would redefine the sound of American songwriting.