Here’s a look at an early home demo of a song that never made it to the studio. There aren’t any lyrics to speak of, but Bruce was pretty far along with the music.
Month: December 2021
What else could Bruce close his holiday show sets with but the greatest rock and roll Christmas song of all time?
Bruce’s version of Blind Alfred Reed’s original protest song draws on a 1970 arrangement by Ry Cooder and a 2005 natural disaster for inspiration.
From their 2014 album Louder Than Words comes a gorgeously resilient cover of Bruce’s dark, detached Nebraska track.
Katy Crane explains why “Cynthia” is a feminist rewrite of Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman.”
Although often attributed to Bruce’s cross-country move, “The Long Goodbye” offers more a more universal theme about relationships that last too long.
In one of his very best covers, Bruce lingers in that very first moment of infatuation.
Tucked into the end of Steel Mill’s set-closing cover of Richie Havens’ “Run, Shaker Life” is this very under-the-radar Springsteen original.
Let’s take a look and listen to five fantastic and fresh takes on Bruce’s most-covered song, “I’m on Fire.”
A few years before Dirty Dancing catapulted The Contours back onto the charts, Bruce was busting out his own dance moves to the 1962 classic.