Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band launch The River Tour, a nine-week U.S. trek, on Jan. 16 in Pittsburgh. The announcement of the tour coincides with today’s release of The Ties That Bind: The River Collection, a comprehensive look at the era of the 1980 The River album that Rolling Stone calls “Springsteen’s best archival release yet.”

Springsteen precedes the tour with a Dec. 19 performance on “Saturday Night Live,” his third appearance on the NBC show.

The River Tour (#TheRiverTour) is the first for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band since the 2014 High Hopes Tour.

Each night of the tour will be mixed for release on Live.BruceSpringsteen.net as high-quality downloads and CDs. Recordings will be available within days of each performance.

The original The River Tour began Oct. 3, 1980, two weeks before the release of Springsteen’s fifth album, and continued through Sept. 4, 1981. With sets that regularly approached the four-hour range, the 140-date international tour firmly established a reputation for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as marathon performers.

The Ties That Bind: The River Collection includes 52 tracks on four CDs with a wealth of unreleased material and four hours of never-before-seen video on three DVDs. It contains the original The River double album; the first official release of The River: Single Album; a CD of 1979/80 studio outtakes; a brand-new documentary about The River; and a coffee-table book of 200 rare or previously unseen photos and memorabilia, with a new essay by Mikal Gilmore. The set also includes a two-DVD film of never-released, newly edited multi-camera footage from a Nov. 1980 show in Tempe, AZ, described by NPR as a “holy grail.”

The Ties That Bind: The River Collection is available at Amazon ( 4CD/3DVD or 4CD/2Blu-ray — http://smarturl.it/tiesthatbind_amz ) and iTunes ( http://smarturl.it/tiesthatbind_itunes ).

The E Street Band’s members are: Roy Bittan – piano, synthesizer; Nils Lofgren – guitar, vocals; Patti Scialfa – guitar, vocals; Garry Tallent – bass guitar; Stevie Van Zandt – guitar, vocals; and Max Weinberg – drums; with Soozie Tyrell – violin, guitar, vocals; Jake Clemons – saxophone; and Charlie Giordano – keyboards.

Tickets to The River Tour go on sale Dec. 11.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 2016 US Tour Dates:

• January 16            Pittsburgh, PA       Consol Energy Center
• January 19            Chicago, IL           United Center
• January 24 & 27    New York, NY        Madison Square Garden
• January 29            Washington, D.C.    Verizon Center
• January 31            Newark, NJ           Prudential Center
• February 2            Toronto, ON          Air Canada Centre
• February 4            Boston, MA           TD Garden
• February 8            Albany, NY            Times Union Center
• February 10          Hartford, CT          XL Center
• February 12          Philadelphia, PA     Wells Fargo Center
• February 16          Sunrise, FL            BB&T Center
• February 18          Atlanta, GA            Philips Arena
• February 21          Louisville, KY         KFC Yum! Center
• February 23          Cleveland, OH       Quicken Loans Arena
• February 25          Buffalo, NY            First Niagara Center
• February 27          Rochester, NY       Blue Cross Arena
• February 29          St Paul, MN           Xcel Energy Center
• March 3                Milwaukee, WI      BMO Harris Bradley Center
• March 6                St Louis, MO         Chaifetz Arena
• March 10              Phoenix, AZ          Talking Stick Resort Arena
• March 13              Oakland, CA          Oracle Arena
• March 15 & 17      Los Angeles, CA    Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena

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