In their first studio collaboration since American Babylon, Joe Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen sing the joys of domesticity.
Month: January 2021
“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.”
My favorite song on Western Stars is arguably the most romantic and (literally) cinematic song in Bruce’s entire catalog.
This smoking, sultry cover of “Cover Me” is enough to make me reconsider my loathing of the song.
“Losin’ Kind” is one of only two original Nebraska demos left in the vault, but its imprint can be found across Bruce’s catalog.
Bruce’s last public premiere to date was an eerily prescient one: Jesse Malin’s “Meet Me at the End of the World.”
Lyrically lazy and musically plodding, “Cover Me” is a candidate for Bruce’s weakest song ever.
Dutch singer-songwriter catapulted his career into motion by covering one of his musical hero’s best-known songs and one of his least-known.