Forty years to the day singer-songwriter and political activist Victor Jara was captured and detained, Bruce paid tribute with a moving rendition of Jara’s “Manifesto.”
Month: January 2021
If “Candy’s Boy” is the lyric donor for “Candy’s Room,” “The Fast Song” is Candy’s musical parent.
What was it like to be in the room at the “We Are the World” recording session? Guest-blogger Clyde Kaplan knows–he was an assistant engineer at the session, and he shares his story inside.
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.
One of the oldest songs from The Seeger Sessions is also the most fun. Let’s take a listen to this centuries-old folk song.
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.
Three times only on the Tunnel of Love Tour, Bruce and the E Street Band closed their shows with a cover of Jackie Wilson’s breakthrough hit.