Glasgow-based Johnny Mac and The Faithful gift us with a beautiful cover of Bruce’s “Across the Border.”
Category: Cover Me
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.”
One of Bruce’s perfect pop songs is hidden away on Gary U.S. Bonds’ 1982 album, On the Line.
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.
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.
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.
In their first studio collaboration since American Babylon, Joe Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen sing the joys of domesticity.
“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.
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.”
This smoking, sultry cover of “Cover Me” is enough to make me reconsider my loathing of the song.