{"id":10634,"date":"1988-02-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"1988-02-14T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=10634"},"modified":"2026-02-07T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:57:58","slug":"matr-lucinda-williams-and-bruce-springsteen-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1988\/02\/14\/matr-lucinda-williams-and-bruce-springsteen-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2006, the Seeger Sessions Tour was in full swing. But on a night off in London, Bruce reminded us that he hadn&#8217;t forgotten how to rock.<\/p>\n<p>Lucinda Williams was in town as well, and Bruce joined her on stage at her performance at Shepherds Bush Empire on November 10th for two songs. The first was a cover of Lil&#8217; Son Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Disgusted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The second, though, was Lucinda&#8217;s hard-rocking &#8220;Joy&#8221; from her 1998 breakthrough album. <em>Car Wheels on a Gravel Road<\/em>. And while Bruce was a backing guitarist for most of the almost thirteen-minute performance below, he gets a turn in the spotlight at around the 10:50 mark and reminds us that he&#8217;s not about to surrender his reputation as a mean rock guitarist any time soon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pq02XzTGGIs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Lucinda&#8217;s original studio version remains one of her greatest songs, a rebellious anthem for anyone who&#8217;s ever had their joy wrested from them. There isn&#8217;t much more to the lyrics than her &#8220;You took my joy; I want it back&#8221;&#8211;but if you&#8217;re looking to the lyrics to provide the song&#8217;s content, you&#8217;re listening to the wrong part.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJTHhY-mG94?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Joy<br \/>\nFirst performed:<\/strong> November 10, 1996 (London, England)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:<\/strong> November 10, 1996 (London, England)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 June 25, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One time only: Bruce joins Lucinda Williams on stage during a night off on the Seeger Sessions Tour for an epic, hard-rocking version of Lucinda&#8217;s &#8220;Joy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3609,5],"tags":[1860,2039],"class_list":["post-10634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","category-little-help","category-meeting-across-the-river","tag-joy","tag-lucinda-williams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/joy.jpg?fit=1200%2C896&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-2Lw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6177,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/04\/meeting-across-the-river-lucinda-williams-and-bruce-springsteen-disgusted\/","url_meta":{"origin":10634,"position":0},"title":"Meeting Across the River: Lucinda Williams and Bruce Springsteen, Disgusted","author":"Ken","date":"December 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"One time only: Bruce joined Lucinda Williams and her band on stage in London to perform a cover of Melvin Jackson's \"Disgusted.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cover Me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cover Me","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/cover-me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jackson.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6274,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/26\/cover-me-lucinda-williams-factory\/","url_meta":{"origin":10634,"position":1},"title":"Cover Me, Lucinda Williams: Factory","author":"Ken","date":"December 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Lucinda Williams covers Bruce in concert often, but she's only covered him in the studio once. 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