September 2010

With Darkness on the Edge of Town set for re-release in a little over a month, Bruce Springsteen took the opportunity to look back on the landmark album. In a new interview with The Guardian, The Boss reminisced about those touch-and-go days following the sweeping success of Born to Run.

"The whole force of Darkness… was a survival thing," he recalled. "After Born to Run, I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.”

He continued, “People thought we were gone. Finished. They just thought Born to Run had been a record company creation. We had to reprove our viability on a nightly basis, by playing, and it took many years. You had to be very committed. One thing we did well after Born to Run was, I said: ‘Woah.’ I got on Time and Newsweek because I decided to be. But I was very frightened at the train and how fast it was going when we got on.”

Looking back on it now, 32 years later, the New Jersey bard says the album stands as a marker for its era.

“The record was of its time,” he said. “We had the late-70s recession, punk music had just come out, times were tough for a lot of the people I knew. And so I veered away from great bar band music or great singles music and veered towards music that I felt would speak of people's life experiences.”

The re-released Darkness on the Edge of Town will be in stores on November 15^th.

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THIS is how you observe an anniversary. I can't wait for this set to come out. Here's what it will contain.

And just think if Prince did this with "Sign O' the Times", which is the PERFECT set to do it with. He already has a movie of it!

Six-disc Box Set - "Darkness on the Edge of Town"

CD1 - Darkness on the Edge of Town digitally remastered.

CD2 - 10 Outtakes from 1978

CD3 - 11 Outtakes from 1978

DVD1 - "The Promise - The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town". The 90-minute film combines never-before-seen footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978—including home rehearsals and studio sessions—with new interviews with Springsteen, E Street Band members, manager Jon Landau, former-manager Mike Appel, and others closely involved in the making of the record.

DVD2 - A full, live performance of the entire "Darkness" album, performed in private in 2009. And, video of live performances from 1978 of 12 songs that are either unreleased songs, or different takes on classic Bruce songs like "Born to Run"

DVD3 - A holy grail of sorts, this is the complete show from December 8, 1978, at the Summit in Houston, TX toward the end of the tour for Darkness on the Edge of Town. They're calling this a "bootleg house cut," as it's the footage that appeared on-screen at the concert.