One week only: At a run of Asbury Park holiday concerts in 2001, Bruce joined Garland Jeffreys on Garland’s 1992 plea for racial harmony.
Martin Ekman returns–solo this time–with a wonderful interpretation of “Secret Garden.”
It’s big and brassy; it swings and it struts. And more than any other song in Bruce’s catalog, no two performances are alike.
At the height of the Great Recession, Bruce heartened his audiences with a nightly encore of Stephen Foster’s 1854 classic.
Bruce’s original River-era composition, a stellar E Street Band performance and Gary’s passionate vocals make for a standout track on an album full of them.
Jack Antonoff delivered a beautifully poignant cover of Bruce’s poppy hit single in a 2017 radio appearance on The Bruce Brunch.
It’s one of Bruce’s most audacious songs ever, a ten-minute, waltz-time, post-apocalyptic allegory for the decline of civilization.
One time only: Bruce and the E Street Band cover one of rock’s great instrumentals at a 1978 soundcheck.
Three times only: Bruce teamed up with The Red Bank Rockers and The Tangiers Blues Band on Huey Smith’s barroom classic.
Don’t let the acoustic instruments fool you–this folk/bluegrass string quintet knows how to rock Bruce’s iconic anthem.