One leap year ago tonight: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street play only their third-ever Leap Day show. It may have been a standard set, but it was a terrific crowd and performance. Highlights inside.
Month: February 2020
Here’s one for all you retro-gaming Springsteen fans out there: an 8-bit cover of “Western Stars” that’s way more impressive than you’d ever imagine.
One of the more curious of Bruce’s work-in-progress River-era home demos, “Stockton Girls” offers an inside look at a songwriter striving to bring a theme to life.
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.”
This Tunnel of Love outtake is the mirror image of “Valentine’s Day,” an artfully and subtly constructed escape fantasy that would have been a perfect fit on the album.
From November 2019, Barney Bentall and the Cariboo Express gift us with their superb cover of Bruce’s instant classic, “Moonlight Motel.”
Bruce’s revealing, healing “Family Song” shines a light into his glossed-over reconciliation with his family in the winter of 1971-72.
One time only: Bruce backs a special Wonder Bar house band of local legends on a cover of Darrell Glenn’s classic “Crying in the Chapel.”
Years before he openly confessed his lifelong battle with depression, Bruce hid it in plain sight as the centerpiece of his Wrecking Ball album.
At a special tribute radio show on the occasion of Bruce’s 70th birthday, Springsteen fans The Head and The Heart closed the show with their lovely cover of “Hungry Heart.”