As Bruce once put it, “any bar band worth its salt has got to know this one.”
Category: Last Time
In his earliest days of parenthood, Bruce donated a new recording for a benefit album to fight pediatric AIDS. Take a listen to Bruce’s first officially released children’s song, “Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips.”
Listen to the E Street Band cover the Stax classic “Green Onions” in a rare instrumental performance.
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.
Bruce has covered this Chuck Willis classic from 1958 three times over his career. Listen to the first and watch the last inside.
Twice only: Bruce pays tribute to his good friend Sting with a rocking arrangement of Sting’s 1996 Nebraska-ish “I Hung My Head.”
During the Born to Run Tour, Bruce worked up a simmering, slow burn of a cover of Solomon Burke’s 1962 classic.
In 1989, Bruce paid tribute to the late, great Roy Orbison by performing Roy’s signature ballad at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
One time only: Listen to Bruce rejoin his former band to take lead vocals on Walter Brown’s blues standard, “Confessin’ the Blues.”
In 1975, Bruce introduced his cover of an ironic love song with the story of a chance meeting with an old friend. Let’s see what happened from there.