It’s a veritable lovefest every time Bruce joins U2 on their iconic anthem, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”
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Sandra Stephens and Lanny Cordola’s simmering, smoky, wonderful cover of “Adam Raised a Cain” dials back the fury and dials up the foreboding. One of my favorite Springsteen covers without question.
Inspired by the legendary collaborations at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concerts, Ray Davies kicked off his album of revitalized Kinks songs with “Better Things” as a duet with Bruce.
Now here’s a true rarity: Bruce Springsteen backing Patti Smith on piano, gamely trying to keep up with her as she improvs her way through one of her earliest poems.
KT Tunstall and the Buena Vista Social Club bring out the sexy in their 2009 cover of “Because the Night.”
Less than three months after it exploded onto the American rock scene, Bruce’s high school band opened their show with a passionate cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze.” Listen to a 17-year-old Bruce Springsteen tear it up inside.
The backstory is odd, but the performance is terrific: watch Bruce and Wolfgang Niedecken deliver a bilingual cover of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” in a German cafe in 1995.
One of the best performances from Elvis Costello’s Springsteen episode of Spectacle was never aired–but you can listen to that intense performance of “Point Blank” inside.
Shortly after Link Wray’s death in 2005, Bruce paid homage by opening the final two shows of the Devils & Dust Tour with a bristling, menacing cover of Wray’s signature song, “Rumble.”
Indie-folk band Hem gave us a wonderful adaptation of “Valentine’s Day” on their 2002 EP of cover songs. Take a listen inside.