Will the world finally hear Electric Nebraska in 2025?

Next year will see the release of Deliver Me From Nowhere, a big-screen biopic about Bruce Springsteen. But instead of chronicling his sperm to worm, the movie focuses specifically on the story of Nebraska’s recording.

Which means it should detail Electric Nebraska. 

Nebraska was not intended to be a solo album. Bruce initially recorded solo demos to send to the E Street Band as a template for their full-band recordings, but after the band laid down their fleshed-out versions, Bruce decided he preferred his original demos, which became Nebraska.

But the full-band cuts — dubbed Electric Nebraska by fans — presumably still exist, collecting dust in the archives since 1982, teased only in concerts with the beloved likes of “Atlantic City” and “Johnny 99” and “Reason to Believe.”

If there was ever a time to unleash Electric Nebraska onto us deprived masses, wouldn’t the Disney-funded fanfare around Deliver Me From Nowhere be the perfect max-attention opportunity? Electric Nebraska may be the ultimate missing piece in the E Street puzzle. 

And if the band tours behind it……..