Bruce took inspiration from Pete Seeger’s 1966 anti-war protest song and a Civil War classic and forged a heartfelt song of his own.
Bruce performed the only song enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame nightly with its original artist during the Vote for Change Tour.
This remarkable (and remarkably clear) 1970 blues is marred only by Bruce’s cringe-y (but historically significant) on-stage story.
Bruce scored a Top 40 country single in 1986 when Mel McDaniel covered his obscure B-side.
From the Bruce Springsteen Band era comes a braggadocious, light-on-its feet number that’s as close to jazz as you’ll ever hear Bruce get.
When The Gaslight Anthem came through Asbury in 2011, Bruce joined them on their album’s title track in a surprise appearance for a hometown crowd.
Bruce couldn’t have chose a more perfect song to end his Western Stars film with than the 1975 classic by a New York songwriter yearning to make it big as a western country star.
Trace Jory was introduced to “Stolen Car” through X Ambassador’s creative cover, but he drew on Bruce’s original arrangement for his own rendition.
The most mature and intimate song on Tunnel of Love cloaks itself in carnival imagery and telegraphs things to come.
One time only: Bruce joins Southside Johnny and Graham Parker to cover one of Aretha Franklin’s greatest hits.