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Month: June 2018

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Meeting Across the River: Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel, New York State of Mind

Posted on June 30, 2018April 24, 2020 by Ken

One of Bruce’s all-time best team-ups: Bruce, Billy Joel, and the E Street Band take on “New York State of Mind”

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Cover Me, Kermit the Frog: Dancing in the Dark

Posted on June 29, 2018December 28, 2022 by Ken

Celebrate the anniversary of Bruce’s “Dancing in the Dark” video with this 1996 homage by the Muppets.

Roll of the Dice

Roll of the Dice: Waiting on the End of the World

Posted on June 28, 2018December 28, 2022 by Ken

Bruce recorded “Waiting on the End of the World” twice, with both the “other” band and the E Street Band–yet he didn’t release either version. I have a theory as to why,

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Roll of the Dice: Lady Walking Down by the River

Posted on June 27, 2018April 14, 2019 by Ken

Bruce’s first published work in a college literary magazine leads to a Steel Mill song that would be recorded forty years later.

Where the Band Was

Where the Band Was: Gijon, June 26, 2013

Posted on June 26, 2018June 15, 2025 by Ken

What the heck was I doing at this particular show? Believe it or not, I was (relatively) in the neighborhood, and I’m sure glad I was.

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Cover Me, Drive-By Truckers: Adam Raised a Cain

Posted on June 26, 2018December 28, 2022 by Ken

Alt-country band Drive-by Truckers proves their rock bona fides whenever they cover this classic from Darkness on the Edge of Town.

Meeting Across the River

Meeting Across the River: Joe Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen, That’s What Makes Us Great

Posted on June 25, 2018September 30, 2020 by Ken

Joe and Bruce team up over e-mail on this Trump-era resistance anthem.

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Cover Me, Ben E. King: 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)

Posted on June 24, 2018November 28, 2019 by Ken

Ben E. King gives “Sandy” the Drifters treatment, and it works splendidly.

Roll of the Dice

Roll of the Dice: The Wish

Posted on June 23, 2018January 1, 2024 by Ken

“The Wish” is Bruce’s most autobiographical song, and it’s more resonant and poignantly powerful today than ever.

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Roll of the Dice: Dance, Dance, Dance

Posted on June 22, 2018April 14, 2019 by Ken

“Dance, Dance, Dance” is a delightfully atypical, funky, horn-fueled, unreleased delight from 1971.

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