One time only: Bruce teams up with Stray Cats at The Fast Lane on Eddie Cochran’s rockabilly classic.
Category: Meeting Across the River
One time only: Bruce and Nils celebrate their friendship in a 1989 performance of Bill Withers’ greatest hit.
We’ve seen Patti back Bruce countless times, and Bruce back Patti for at least a few. But rarely do we hear them share a lead vocal, like they did in their wonderful 2004 cover of “It Takes Two.”
In 1984, a redheaded woman walked into a bar and changed the course of Bruce Springsteen’s life. This is the song she sang, and their only circulating performance of it together.
One time only: Bruce backs a special Wonder Bar house band of local legends on a cover of Darrell Glenn’s classic “Crying in the Chapel.”
ZZ Top’s “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide” was a set list favorite for Bruce’s Stone Pony appearances in 1984, but it was a lot rarer on E Street stages. “Official” and club performances inside.
The story of “You Mean So Much to Me” continues beyond its last E Street stage appearance. Listen to the definitive cover by Southside Johnny and Ronnie Spector, plus Bruce and Ronnie’s unexpected 1977 team-up.
Bruce teams up with Garland Jeffreys for a crowd-pleasing cover of ? and the Mysterians’ “96 Tears.”
One time only: Bruce joins Steve Earle for a faithful cover of The Rolling Stones’ country rock classic, “Dead Flowers.”
Did he or didn’t he? Bruce and Gary U.S. Bonds played “Soul Deep” on stage together in 2003, but the jury’s out on whether that was really Bruce’s first time singing the 1969 blue-eyed soul classic with Gary.