Bruce Springsteen's 'The River' Box Set Confirmed For December Release, Features Concert Movie + Outtakes

American singer-songwriter-musician Bruce Springsteen confirmed that "The River" box set will be set for official release, and it is packaged to be more than just a simple collection of music and memorabilia according to The Guardian.

Bruce Springsteen's "The River" box set contains four CDs and three DVD. Titled "The Ties That Bind: The River Collection," it features the originally planned single album of the titular track - which was then titled as "The Ties That Bind" - 11 tracks worth of previously unreleased outtakes, a documentary, a concert video, and additional 10 songs from the era that were released on previous box sets.

The featured documentary of the same title was directed and produced by Thom Zimmy, who has been collaborating with Springsteen for a long time. it will feature acoustic renditions of songs from "The River" album as well as photographs and concert footage.

As for the two-DVD add-ons, it will feature E Street Band's concert show in Tempe, AZ on Nov. 5, 1980. Shot in four cameras and recorded in multi-track audio, it is set to run at 160 minutes, with additional 20-minute footage of band rehearsal which was filmed weeks before the album's release, according to Rolling Stone.

Springsteen, 66, says of the upcoming box set release: "It was a nice place in our development. At the time, I was pouring through a variety of history books just to contextualize myself, understand where I came from and what that meant."

He also added, "I wanted to write songs of breadth that had some depth to them. And I knew I wanted to write about the place I lived and I wanted to write about social forces that I felt played through that history. I devoured quite a few history books at the time, trying to get a sense of where everything came from."

Bruce Springsteen's "The River" box set will be released on Dec. 4. The album was originally released on October 1980.