Bruce Springsteen is to release his 1978 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town' album as a CD/DVD Bow Set.
On the audio side, there's a remastered version of the record, along with two discs filled with 21 previously unreleased songs that Springsteen says "could have/should have been released after Born to Run and before the collection of songs that Darkness on the Edge of Town became," according to a press release. (A legal battle with former manager Mike Appel famously delayed the recording of Darkness.) The unreleased songs include a rock version of epic ballad "Racing in the Street" and the original recordings of "Because the Night" and "Fire". The two CDs of unearthed material will also be sold on their own as The Promise. Over at Springsteen's website, you can hear the previously unreleased track "Save My Love".
Over on the visual side, we get the new 90-minute documentary The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, which features previously unseen footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band from between 1976 and 1978 along with new interviews with all the principals behind the record. (It'll premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 14 and screen on HBO October 7.)
Also, there are two more DVDs worth of live footage, highlighted by a 26-track, high-quality bootleg of a Houston show from 1978. Assorted live tracks from the period are also included, as well as a 2009 performance of the entire album at Asbury Park's Paramount Theater.
There's an 80-page booklet with pages from Springsteen's notebook as well as a new essay from the singer, too.
