Bruce Springsteen said to Rolling Stone that the reason a song like "The Promise" didn't make it on his 1978 album, Darkness on The Edge of Town, was because "it was too close to my story."  He added that he was more interested "in telling your story or our story" during the recording sessions.  But come Tuesday, fans will finally get to hear the songs that tell Springsteen's story and other stories when the massive six-disc box set, The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story, is released.

Included in the box set is a two-disc album called The Promise which features songs that didn't make the final cut of Darkness.  Springsteen doesn't see it as an album filled with outtakes but "a fully realized separate piece of our history."  The Boss had written over 70 songs during the recording process of Darkness and didn't use all the tracks because "many of the songs I couldn't finish at the time" and because some songs were "a little more genre based: soul music, garage-rock."  So The Promise gave him "the opportunity to sort of bring the perspective of all the years we've put in."

As for what Springsteen's next move is once this giant box set is released?  He says "I don't know what I'm doing.  I'm smelling something in the air and I'm trying to find out what that is."  So for now, this box set which includes three discs of music and three DVD's that hold previously unreleased live footage and the documentary The Promise: The Making of Darkness on The Edge of Town will have to do.

Here's what's included in The Promise: The Darkness on The Edge of Town Story box set:

CD 1: Remastered Darkness on the Edge of Town
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"

CD 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"

CD 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, NJ, 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 '76)
2. "Candy's Boy" (Holmdel, NJ '76)
3. "Something In The Night" (Red Bank, NJ '76)
4. "Don't Look Back" (NYC '78)
5. "Ain't Good Enough For You" (NYC '78)
6. "The Promise" (NYC '78)
7. "Candy's Room Demo" (NYC '78)
8. "Badlands" (Phoenix '78)
9. "The Promised Land" (Phoenix '78)
10. "Prove It All Night" (Phoenix '78)
11. "Born To Run" (Phoenix '78)
12. "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" (Phoenix '78)

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 Comin' 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"

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