{"id":11450,"date":"2019-08-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=11450"},"modified":"2019-08-01T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T12:17:09","slug":"cover-me-kirk-kelly-downbound-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/cover-me-kirk-kelly-downbound-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Kirk Kelly: Downbound Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than fifteen years before\u00a0<em>Born to Uke,\u00a0<\/em>Kirk Kelly gave Bruce&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/22\/roll-of-the-dice-downbound-train\/\">Downbound Train<\/a>&#8221; the ukulele treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Paring the song down and stripping it of all ornamentation, Kirk transforms &#8220;Downbound Train.&#8221; It&#8217;s no longer cinematic, but it&#8217;s every bit as powerful&#8211;Bruce&#8217;s narrator now sounds defeated, disturbed, and stuck in his own head. It&#8217;s an eerie effect.<\/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\/R9HakNjZln8?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>You can find Kelly&#8217;s cover of &#8220;Downbound Train&#8221; on the 2003 tribute album,\u00a0<em>Light of Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-folk singer Kirk Kelly pares &#8220;Downbound Train&#8221; down to a ukulele and a haunted, lonely vocal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11602,"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],"tags":[317,2409],"class_list":["post-11450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-downbound-train","tag-kirk-kelly"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/LOD.jpg?fit=1050%2C944&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-2YG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":672,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/cover-me-the-smithereens-downbound-train\/","url_meta":{"origin":11450,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me, The Smithereens: Downbound Train","author":"Ken","date":"February 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Fellow New Jerseyans take a swing at Bruce's \"Downbound Train.\"","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\/02\/dowbound.jpg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5743,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1984\/01\/27\/cover-me-kurt-vile-downbound-train\/","url_meta":{"origin":11450,"position":1},"title":"Cover Me, Kurt Vile: Downbound Train","author":"Ken","date":"January 27, 1984","format":false,"excerpt":"Kurt Vile and the Violators nailed Bruce's \"Downbound Train\" in concert, capturing and heightening the song's underlying menacing obsession.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;BITUSA&quot;","block_context":{"text":"BITUSA","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/bitusa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vile.jpg?fit=624%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vile.jpg?fit=624%2C630&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vile.jpg?fit=624%2C630&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6887,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1984\/01\/07\/roll-of-the-dice-downbound-train\/","url_meta":{"origin":11450,"position":2},"title":"Downbound Train","author":"Ken","date":"January 7, 1984","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Downbound Train\" is a master class in cinematic songwriting. Let's look at how the director skillfully crafted his \"movie\" inside.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;BITUSA&quot;","block_context":{"text":"BITUSA","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/bitusa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dbtrainbig.jpg?fit=1024%2C678&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dbtrainbig.jpg?fit=1024%2C678&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dbtrainbig.jpg?fit=1024%2C678&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dbtrainbig.jpg?fit=1024%2C678&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":57559,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/kingdom-of-days-july-2-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":11450,"position":3},"title":"July 2","author":"Ken","date":"July 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy birthday \"Professor\" Roy Bittan! 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