Watch Bruce’s powerful rendition of Bob Dylan’s immortal “Blowin’ in the Wind” from the televised S.O.S. Racisme Concert in 1988.
Author: Ken
The shoulda-been “Cover Me” that never was.
Kicking off a new series with a seasonal E Street fable.
Abandoned almost as soon as Bruce began it, “In Kansas” provides a glimpse of what might have developed into an early epic.
It took more than four decades for Bruce to cover “Good Lovin’,” but he made up for it when he did. Great performances inside.
Bruce’s two-minute character study demo is a fascinating pre-Greetings curiosity.
Here’s a cover that will always rank among my favorites if only for the circumstances in which I first heard it.
For at least a moment, for at least a song, Bruce settles his inner struggle between building and burning.
Just as powerful as an instrumental as the Youngbloods’ original anti-war nightmare, The Bruce Springsteen Band does justice to Jesse Colin Young’s “Darkness, Darkness.”
Listen in on an abandoned River-era demo that might have been an early ancestor of “Fade Away.”