Queen’s Roger Taylor picks up the pace in his cover of Bruce’s “Racing in the Street.” It moves faster, but is it still moving?
Month: May 2019
“Secret Garden” is one of Bruce’s best love songs. It’s also one of his least romantic.
One time only: Bruce joins The Wallflowers on their 1996 deep cut, “God Don’t Make Lonely Girls,” when the band’s 1997 tour brings them to Bruce’s neck of the woods.
Scottish band Camera Obscura makes a subtle change to Bruce’s enduring, romantic “Tougher Than the Rest,” to powerful effect.
Edwin Starr’s “War” remains sadly relevant ever since its original smash release. In 1985, Bruce released a live music video of his cover version, and three years later he performed it with Starr himself. Watch both amazing performances inside.
In 2006, Bruce resurrected and revised an anti-war song from the Napoleonic era, filling it with resonance for the modern era.
One night only: Bruce sits in with The Patti Smith Group on guitar for Patti’s improvisational “You Can Dig It.”
“Lucky Town” is an intimate song of personal affirmation and professional re-dedication, one of the strongest tracks on a strong but under-rated album.
One of the last songs Buckwheat Zydeco recorded in the studio was a reggae reinvention of Bruce’s torch song, “Back in Your Arms.” And it works.
A lost Springsteen lyrics sheet surfaces in Belgium, shedding light onto a performed but never recorded Bruce Springsteen Band song.