Performed only once and buried deep within its album, Bruce’s version of “Shenandoah” is faithful and true to the song’s spirt.
Month: January 2006
Bruce and Marc Anthony Thompson breathed new life into this civil rights anthem on their 2006 Seeger Sessions Tour.
In 1997, Bruce plucked Sis Cunningham’s bitingly funny dust bowl chronicle from obscurity when he recorded it in his very first Seeger Session. Nine years later, it would become a nightly tour showpiece.
Bruce gives an old spiritual the Dixieland treatment and creates a setlist centerpiece in the process.
“Erie Canal” is a nostalgic callback to a slower-paced world. Bruce’s version captures the wistfulness, pride, and celebration of two workers (one human and one equine) at the sunset of their careers.
One of the all-time great American folk heroes made a nightly appearance on the Seeger Sessions Tour.
Bruce joined a long line of artists in keeping an important African-American spiritual protest song alive and vibrant for generations to come.
In 2006, Bruce resurrected and revised an anti-war song from the Napoleonic era, filling it with resonance for the modern era.
Band-friendly and Ironically faithful to the historically inaccurate original, Bruce’s 1997 arrangement of “Jesse James” is likely to come out at both Seeger and E Street shows. Backstory and great performances inside.
Recorded during the freewheeling second Seeger Session, “Old Dan Tucker” led of Bruce’s 2006 album and became a nightly favorite on tour.