One time only: Bruce joins Joe Grushecky on stage at a benefit show in Pittsburgh for a blistering guitar solo and backing vocals on Joe’s “True Companion.”
Category: Cover Me
In 2008, Alejandro Escovedo’s upcoming single received an unexpected boost from The Boss when Bruce asked Alejandro to perform it with him live in concert–their first joint appearance of many.
Certainly one of the most unusual Bruce covers, Neil Young’s version of “My Hometown” was recorded in a vintage Voice-o-Graph recording booth. Listen to it inside, and watch Neil and Jack White discuss the project.
Rest in peace, Justin Townes Earle–gone far, far too soon.
Today’s cover is a daring interpretation of “Glory Days” on piano and harmonica, and it works amazingly well.
Indie rapper/singer Dessa dials up the melancholy to eleven in her moody acoustic cover of Bruce’s 1985 single.
Crunchy, grungy, and loud: Frank Black and the Catholics give us the angry, cathartic version of “I’m Goin’ Down” we didn’t know we needed.
Another outtake from the terrific One Step Up/Two Steps Back 1998 tribute project, Bimbo du Jour unleashes the inner punk in Bruce’s “No Surrender.”
Holly Williams delivers a wistful, nostalgic take of “No Surrender.”
Kurt Vile and the Violators nailed Bruce’s “Downbound Train” in concert, capturing and heightening the song’s underlying menacing obsession.