A new 37-track boxed set released alongside a biopic tracking the making of his 1982 album underscores how sometimes a musician’s first recording is the right one. By Jon Pareles Demo-itis. That’s the ...

Boxed sets celebrating classic rock albums offer the joy of discovery, in all those abandoned alternate versions being brought into the light as bonus tracks, but usually also some simultaneous ...

In September 1981, Bruce Springsteen, then 32, finished the tour for his double album, The River. The singer had never been in such a triumphant position. He was enjoying what he always yearned for: ...

There are good albums and great albums, and then there are holy records — worlds you enter as if into a dream and emerge with spirit and neurochemistry changed. Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 classic ...

In a risky career move, Springsteen turns introspective, digesting the short stories of Flannery O’Connor and Howard Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States.” The result is 1982’s “Nebraska,” ...