The 30th anniversary reissue of Darkness On The Edge Of Town has grown into a 3 CD & 3 DVD collection packing a whopping 6 hours of footage and 2+ hours of audio. Also out Nov. 16 is The Promise, a 2 CD or 4 lp configuration that includes 21 songs recorded during the Darkness sessions, tunes Bruce describes as 'substantial', and ones he possibly should have released as a separate album before the 1978 release of Darkness. Springsteen manager and confidant Jon Landau promises the previously unreleased material adds up to '...simply a great listening experience.' The first DVD in the complete collection is The Promise: The Making Of Darkness on the Edge of Town, the documentary by Thom Zimny that premiers at the Toronto Film Festival September 14 and comes to HBO October 7 (story). The second DVD features a 2009 HD recording of the E Street Band doing the original album in its entirety in 2009 at an empty Paramount Theater in Asbury Park, along with a dozen concert clips filmed at shows between 1976 and 1978. A complete 26 song set filmed at the Summit in Houston in December of '78 is documented on the third DVD.
Backstreets.com has complete track lists and more info about the long-anticipated collection.
