Bruce Springsteen To Release Massive ‘The River’ Box Set

American singer-songwriter-musician Bruce Springsteen confirmed that “The River” box set will be set for official release, and it is packaged to be more than just a simple collection of music and memorabilia according to The Guardian.

“The River”, Springsteen’s fifth album, was released in October 1980 and became his first #1 in the US.

Bruce Springsteen will release a new box set in December highlighting his 1980 album “The River”, with several never-before heard tracks, unseen video footage as well as a new documentary, his publicist said.

Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” box set contains four CDs and three DVD.

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.

Among the unreleased material are the ten songs that make up The River: Single Album, intended as the follow-up to 1978’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town, but canned by The Boss. It also comes with a 148-page 10-inch-by-12-inch book with photos from the sessions, and a new essay by writer Mikal Gilmore. “The songs lacked the kind of unity and conceptual intensity I liked my music to have”.

Springsteen, 66, remains active both in the studio and on the road, releasing his 18th studio album past year. A previously unreleased track called “Meet Me In The City” dropped Thursday with the announcement (listen below).