British jazz singer Barb Jungr finds the wistful nostalgia at the heart of “Long Walk Home” and transforms it into a poignant torch song.
Month: January 2022
The second track on Western Stars is another song with an itinerant hero, one whose freedom came at a price.
It’s one of Joe and Bruce’s best songwriting collaborations and on-stage moments, as fresh today as it was when they wrote it a quarter-century ago.
Martin Ekman returns–solo this time–with a wonderful interpretation of “Secret Garden.”
It’s big and brassy; it swings and it struts. And more than any other song in Bruce’s catalog, no two performances are alike.
It’s one of Bruce’s most audacious songs ever, a ten-minute, waltz-time, post-apocalyptic allegory for the decline of civilization.
Don’t let the acoustic instruments fool you–this folk/bluegrass string quintet knows how to rock Bruce’s iconic anthem.
Recorded twice, performed dozens of times, yet it still flies under the radar for most fans.
Twelve years later, Bruce revisited his narrator from “Brothers Under the Bridges ’83,” now haunted by the war that awaited him.
Steve Earle has been covering Bruce since the outset of his career– and this ACL performance is one of his strongest.