At an impromptu soundcheck-turned-preshow, Bruce, Southside, and friends play a loose, fun cover of a Hank Williams classic.
Month: January 2015
At the opening show of The Bruce Springsteen Band’s month-long residency at The Back Door in February 1972, Southside Johnny takes the spotlight when Bruce and the band cover Jimmy Reed’s classic.
During sound checks on the Tunnel of Love Tour, Bruce occasionally covered one of Van Morrison’s loveliest songs.
Set the wayback machine to September 16, 1967, and we’ll listen to 17-year-old Bruce Springsteen tear up Mobey Grape’s “Omaha” in the earliest known live Springsteen recording.
Catch Bruce playing in Denver, and you just might get lucky enough to hear him cover Bob Seger’s 1974 classic.
A rare instrumental cover by Bruce, “Once Upon a Time in the West is a gorgeous composition by Italian composer Ennio Morricone.
Whenever Bruce goes to Soulsville, U.S.A., there’s gonna be a party. Check out some great performances of this Stax classic.
Bruce Springsteen found the soul of Woody Guthrie’s signature song and helped millions of Americans hear its true message for the first time.
“The Star Spangled Banner” was written on and for a day like this very one. Watch Bruce Springsteen play a lovely version of it in 2004.
And so we’ve reached the end of the Cover Me series. It’s incomplete, as it was always destined to be. Trying to catalog and chronicle every…