If “Candy’s Boy” is the lyric donor for “Candy’s Room,” “The Fast Song” is Candy’s musical parent.
Month: January 2021
One of Bruce’s perfect pop songs is hidden away on Gary U.S. Bonds’ 1982 album, On the Line.
Nineteen-year-old Bruce Springsteen grappled with the horrors of the Vietnam War in one of his earliest compositions.
In the mid-eighties, the New Jersey music scene united to raise money to combat local hunger, and Bruce joined them for their benefit single.
Deep into his cover of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” Silent Bear sense a new context for Bruce’s classic song and took it in a daring new direction.
At a pair of 1990 benefit shows, Bruce debuted a dark song about espionage and political conspiracy. It hasn’t been heard from since.
In their first studio collaboration since American Babylon, Joe Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen sing the joys of domesticity.
“The Star Spangled Banner” was written on and for a day like this very one. Watch Bruce Springsteen play a lovely version of it in 2004.
Listen in on The Bruce Springsteen Band (with guest soloist Southside Johnny) grooving their way through Bruce’s original song, “The Band’s Just Boppin’ the Blues.”
Billy Lee Riley might be too obscure to cover in concert, but we can hear Bruce pay tribute in private in his 1978 and 1988 soundchecks of “Is That All to the Ball (Mr. Hall.”