Two cover takes of “Fire” — the first and the definitive, both by Robert Gordon and Link Wray.
Month: January 2018
In which Bruce redeems one of his least compelling compositions decades after it was released.
A very special final night in Cape Town featured the world premiere of “This Is Your Word” and a surprise performance of “Sun City” with Mos Def.
Get (very) up close and personal as Bruce and Levon Helm’s All-Stars play “Up on Cripple Creek” at The Stone Pony on August 22, 1987.
A return to the Seeger Sessions tour, or so it seemed at Cape Town Night 2.
Never have I seen a Springsteen cover start with so much promise only to go so horribly wrong.
For the completists only: A strident, polemic “Black Sun Rising” performed only twice (mercifully) by Steel Mill.
Bruce and Gaslight Anthem tear up “The ‘59 Sound” at Hyde Park in 2009
“Stray Bullet” is a dark and haunting outcast from the River sessions.
In which I take a deep breath, answer questions, and say “thanks!”