Traditional, slow-grooving, or hard-rocking, they’re all great: check out Bruce’s three very different covers of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” spanning five decades.
Month: March 2015
Never performed but occasionally soundchecked, Bruce was clearly taken with The Searchers’ “Needles and Pins” during the Born to Run tour.
For a brief time during the summer of 1975, Bruce’s shows featured a sweet, tender cover of The Drifters’ “Up on the Roof.”
A chance find in an airport duty-free store led to a new Bruce arrangement of an obscure Jimmy Cliff song–and an instant fan favorite.
Billy Lee Riley might be too obscure to cover in concert, but we can hear Bruce pay tribute in private in his 1978 and 1988 soundchecks of “Is That All to the Ball (Mr. Hall.”
Long before “Detroit Medley,” The Bruce Springsteen Band was grooving to “C.C. Rider” in a much bluesier arrangement.
Bo Diddley’s ode to the mythical locale of Diddy Wah Diddy became the perfect way to thank fans for a great tour.
Many, many times–but almost always in small clubs: Bruce rocks the house with a cover of Chuck Berry’s classic B-side, “Around and Around.”
It’s the first song Bruce and Joe Grushecky ever performed together and one of the greatest mysteries of rock and roll.
Bruce has covered “Louie Louie” several times through the decades–catch some of his best performances of the frat rock classic inside.