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Folks, Bruce Springsteen doesn’t kid around when it comes to keeping promises. The specs are in for The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story, and this monster box set due on November 16 is going to be a doozy, to put it mildly. Boasting three packed CDs and three DVDs or Blu-Rays, The Promise is a treasure chest for longtime Springsteen fans: 21 unreleased audio tracks on two CDs, four hours of concert footage (including 12 performances dating between 1976 and 1978, a whopping 26 tracks from Houston in 1978 and a complete 2009 New Jersey performance of Darkness in its entirety) and Thom Zimny’s full-length documentary about the making of the seminal 1978 LP. Oh yeah, and the remastered original album, too! This is all housed in a package containing an 80-page book designed after one of Springsteen’s notebooks. The notebook will reproduce alternate lyrics, song ideas, recording details and notes made by Springsteen, in addition to a new essay by Springsteen and rare photographs.

For fans not interested in the video content, The Promise will be available as a two-CD or four-LP set containing only the two discs’ worth of unreleased studio material. The press release and a sneak-peek stream is available on Springsteen’s own site, and fans can pre-order a package containing a T-shirt and poster here.

Hit the jump for the specs on the truly remarkable array of material being made available for the first time. It’s all coming to you on November 16 from Columbia/Legacy.

Bruce Springsteen, The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story (Columbia/Legacy, 2010)

Disc 1: Darkness on the Edge of Town (Columbia LP 35318, 1978)

1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised a Cain
3. Something in the Night
4. Candy’s Room
5. Racing in the Street
6. The Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness on the Edge of Town

Disc 2: The Promise (Disc 1)

1. Racing in the Street (’78)
2. Gotta Get That Feeling
3. Outside Looking In
4. Someday (We’ll Be Together)
5. One Way Street
6. Because the Night
7. Wrong Side of the Street
8. The Brokenhearted
9. Rendezvous
10. Candy’s Boy

Disc 3: The Promise (Disc 2)

1. Save My Love
2. Ain’t Good Enough for You
3. Fire
4. Spanish Eyes
5. It’s a Shame
6. Come On (Let’s Go Tonight)
7. Talk to Me
8. The Little Things (My Baby Does)
9. Breakaway
10. The Promise
11. City of Night

DVD 1: The Promise: The Making of “Darkness on the Edge of Town”

DVD 2:

“Darkness on the Edge of Town” (Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, 2009)

1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised a Cain
3. Something in the Night
4. Candy’s Room
5. Racing in the Street
6. The Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness on the Edge of Town

“Thrill Hill Vault” (1976-1978)

1. Save My Love (Holmdel, NJ, 1976)
2. Candy’s Boy (Holmdel, NJ, 1976)
3. Something in the Night (Red Bank, NJ, 1976)
4. Don’t Look Back (NYC, 1978)
5. Ain’t Good Enough for You (NYC,  1978)
6. The Promise (NYC,  1978)
7. Candy’s Room (Demo) (NYC,  1978)
8. Badlands (Phoenix, AZ, 1978)
9. The Promised Land (Phoenix, AZ, 1978)
10. Prove It All Night (Phoenix, AZ, 1978)
11. Born to Run (Phoenix, AZ, 1978)
12. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (Phoenix, AZ, 1978)

DVD 3: “Houston ’78 Bootleg: House Cut”

1. Badlands
2. Streets of Fire
3. It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City
4. Darkness on the Edge of Town
5. Spirit in the Night
6. Independence Day
7. The Promised Land
8. Prove It All Night
9. Racing in the Street
10. Thunder Road
11. Jungleland
12. The Ties That Bind
13. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
14. The Fever
15. Fire
16. Candy’s Room
17. Because the Night
18. Point Blank
19. She’s the One
20. Backstreets
21. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
22. Born to Run
23. Detroit Medley
24. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
25. You Can’t Sit Down
26. Quarter to Three