Bruce Springsteen has been on a rip lately; between touring, beefing with Trump, releasing Tracks II and that whole Jeremy Allen White biopic thing — it's safe to say he's got a lot on his plate. To make a busy year busier, he's also just confirmed that the fabled electric version of his bedroom-recorded lo-fi folk album Nebraska.
Speaking with Rolling Stone, the Boss initially denied the electric version's existence wholeheartedly, telling the publication outright that "it doesn't exist. ... we tried to do a few songs with the band for a few minor electric versions of 'Nebraska,' maybe something else, I'm not sure. But that record simply doesn't exist. There is no electric Nebraska outside of what you hear us performing onstage."
Journalist Andy Greene shared a text he received from Springsteen, which flips that declaration on its head, a month after the interview: "Hey Andy! Bruce Springsteen here. Just wanted to give you a heads-up. I checked our vault and there IS an electric Nebraska record though it does not have the full album of songs. All best, Bruce."
Springsteen shared in the interview that he has no definitive plans to perform the album in full for live audiences, however, "I could possibly go out and play that record straight through one day, I think that would be fun to do, and the fans would get a kick out of it. That's not off the table."
Elsewhere in the interview, the Boss gave a quick shout-out to his Canadian fans. Read that excerpt below.
Watching actors re-create your childhood right in front of you must have been really intense emotionally.
Well, some of the scenes I wasn't at. If there was a scene coming up that was sometimes really deeply personal, I wanted the actors to feel completely free, and I didn't want to get in the way, and so I would just stay at home. If Scott Cooper, the director, wanted or needed me there for something, I would try to make it. But I was on tour in Canada for the whole first month or so of the filming, and so I was out really out on the road quite a bit and working at that time.
Hey — a shout-out to my Canadian audience, who was incredible on that tour, just the best Canadian tour we ever had.