Twice only: Bruce paid tribute to Wilson Pickett with his own version of “Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do).” Just don’t call it a cover.
Month: October 2020
Will the real “Seeds” please stand up? Let’s take a listen to the many forms of this unreleased but vital entry in the Springsteen catalog.
BOOM a LOON, Robert J. Hunter, and Eddy Smith reinvent Bruce’s greatest hit with a cool funk groove.
Bruce debuted his cover of “When You Walk in the Room” at his legendary stand at the Bottom Line; he reprised it more than thirty years later.
A riff in search of a song, both “Tonight” and “Break My Heart” point the way to an underappreciated Tracks outtake.
One time only: Bruce joins Roy Orbison on one of Roy’s earliest and most influential hits.
Ken Tizzard of The Watchmen contributed a deeply empathic cover of “Devils and Dust” to a Newfoundland radio station’s Springsteen tribute.
Bruce calls it “an annoying fan favorite” and certainly not one of his. But in this blogger’s opinion, “The Fever” is one of the E Street Band’s finest moments on record.
One time only (that was captured, at least): Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band take a break from rehearsing new Darkness Tour songs with an impromptu cover of The Yardbirds’ classic “Heart Full of Soul.”
One time only: Bruce stands in for Bono at a surprise World AIDS Day benefit concert in Times Square, in a callback to the band’s famous 1987 video.