A brand new, seven-disc box set is on the way from Bruce Springsteen, celebrating his landmark 1980 release, The River.  

The set, which is being released Dec. 4, is chock full of collector's items. But the one that will surely leave fans of the Boss most excited is an entire 10-track album, recorded in 1979, that Bruce originally intended to be the follow-up to '78's Darkness on the Edge of Town.   

That album never saw the light of day ... until now. Why?

"The songs lacked the kind of unity and conceptual intensity that I liked my music to have.  So (we scrapped it) and went back into the studio," Springsteen said.

The especially cool thing is this:  these aren't just demos. The new companion album is a complete work of never before heard Bruce Springsteen material. Want a sample? Here's the lead track from the new, unearthed album, "Meet Me In The City":

The four CD and three DVD package also delivers 22 outtakes from the sessions -- including 11 previously unreleased -- an hour-long documentary/interview with Springsteen complete with solo acoustic guitar performances, and a legendary 1980 concert filmed at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz.

The box set also presents a hardcover 148-page coffee table book containing 200 studio and live photographs plus pages from Springsteen's notebooks, single covers, images and outtakes from the original album package, and other memorabilia documenting the album.

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