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Month: January 2019
One time only: Bruce covers Larry Williams’ influential “Slow Down” with a cover band at the Classics Cafe in Westwood, New Jersey.
Stop what you’re doing and listen. The Bruce Springsteen Band’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” is one of their finest pre-E Street moments.
One of my all-time favorite covers of a Springsteen song: Elvis Costello and Mumford & Sons play a lovely, spontaneous “The Ghost of Tom Joad” at Sasquatch in 2013.
A precursor to “Working on the Highway,” Bruce’s lost-in-time “Stockton Boys” never made it past the home demo stage–but those demos escaped into the wild. Take a listen inside.
Here’s a lovely under-the-radar duet featuring one of Bruce’s best 90s vocals and a verse he couldn’t resist.
The rocking arrangement and blunt language of “Spare Parts” overwhelms the dilemma at its center its moral of redemptive self-empowerment. Like “Born in the U.S.A.,” its true power emerges when it’s performed quietly.
David Bowie recorded a tremendous cover of Bruce’s “Growin’ Up” back in 1973, but it languished in the vaults for 17 years before it saw the light of day. Take a listen inside.
Bruce based two of his most uplifting songs on Curtis Mayfield’s “People Get Ready,” but the only time he ever performed the original in an arena was with U2 in 2005. Watch that loose, fun performance inside.
“Clouds” is the first entry in Bruce’s legendary lost 1968 Notebook. Likely performed in his solo acoustic shows that year, “Clouds” is the lament of a Vietnam soldier clinging desperately to visions of home, love, and life.