On this date: Jake Clemons’ debut E Street Band performance and Suki Lahav’s final one.
Tag: The Ghost of Tom Joad
An insanely eventful day in Bruce history with gigs galore, Grammy Awards, and TV appearances. Check out the highlights, including an amazing cover of “Stayin’ Alive” and a barely-pre-reunion clip from Conan O’Brian.
Can a day in Bruce history get any more packed? Hear the backstory from Ernest “Boom” Carter’s first show; listen to Bruce, Madonna, and Prince play together in 1985; watch a classic Grammy Awards performance with Elvis Costello and Dave Grohl, and much more!
An appearance on Italian television, a one-off acoustic show with Q&A in Somerville, and a bar gig with Beaver Brown highlight this day in Bruce history.
Steel Mill opens for Black Sabbath, Bruce makes a Tonight Show appearance, and it’s the world premiere of “It’s the Little Things That Count.” More highlights inside.
On this date: Bruce releases his eleventh studio album, The Ghost of Tom Joad. Plus: the Seeger Sessions Tour wraps up, the return of forgotten classic “Song for Orphans,” and Bruce plays his first ever show in Sweden. More highlights inside.
On this significant date: Bruce pays tribute to Frank Sinatra on his 80th birthday, the Blood Brothers EP is released, and Danny Federici plays his final full show. Much more inside.
Bruce Springsteen’s eleventh studio album is one of his best-sounding and most thematically cohesive. It wears its influences on its sleeves, and we’ll explore them inside.
In 1985, Bruce picked up a book on the new American underclass. When he finally opened and read it a decade later, it inspired one of the strongest songs on his next album.
Two abandoned, noir-ish Nebraska-era demos converge more than a decade later in an officially released gem.