The true, winding road from a backyard birthday party to a critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning album.
Tag: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Bruce joined a long line of artists in keeping an important African-American spiritual protest song alive and vibrant for generations to come.
Bruce’s version of Blind Alfred Reed’s original protest song draws on a 1970 arrangement by Ry Cooder and a 2005 natural disaster for inspiration.
One of the all-time great American folk heroes made a nightly appearance on the Seeger Sessions Tour.
Recorded during the freewheeling second Seeger Session, “Old Dan Tucker” led of Bruce’s 2006 album and became a nightly favorite on tour.
Band-friendly and Ironically faithful to the historically inaccurate original, Bruce’s 1997 arrangement of “Jesse James” is likely to come out at both Seeger and E Street shows. Backstory and great performances inside.
In 2006, Bruce resurrected and revised an anti-war song from the Napoleonic era, filling it with resonance for the modern era.
An age-old American classic is reinvigorated by a younger American classic.