{"id":11632,"date":"2015-03-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=11632"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:02:11","slug":"cover-me-ring-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/20\/cover-me-ring-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of November 18, 2009, in the final week of the Working on a Dream Tour in Nashville, Bruce opened the encores with those words every Springsteen fan loves to hear:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We&#8217;ve never played this before&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And then without further ado, he launched into a just-for-Nashville cover of Johnny Cash&#8217;s &#8220;Ring of Fire&#8221; (taking full advantage of Curt Ramm).<\/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\/IUaDmax2CxM?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>It was a terrific and faithful performance, but Bruce got one thing wrong:<\/p>\n<p>It was\u00a0<em>not<\/em> in fact the first time he&#8217;d played the song. He&#8217;d performed it at least twice before, but we can forgive him for not remembering&#8211;after all, the last time had been 35 years prior.<\/p>\n<p>But oh, that early version&#8211;just listen to it. Even through the rough sound quality, Bruce&#8217;s daring arrangement absolutely dazzles. It&#8217;s an E Street Band performance, but it sounds like something The Bruce Springsteen Band might have played.<\/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\/SmNh7gGOQ0U?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>What I wouldn&#8217;t give for a clean copy of that.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce wasn&#8217;t the first artist to take liberties with the song. That distinction belongs to Johnny Cash himself, in fact, because the song was originally written by his future wife June Carter and first recorded and released by June&#8217;s sister Anita in 1962, a year before Cash&#8217;s version.<\/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\/OlWGsaorj6U?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>Cash loved the song when he first heard it, but he had a vision of a mariachi horn accompaniment, which of course he famously added when he covered the song the following year. It immediately became the song&#8217;s defining trait and an instant classic, peaking at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 but reaching the top of the Country chart.<\/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\/1WaV2x8GXj0?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>(That iconic horn riff is immediately recognizable, as Springsteen fans realized when they first heard Bruce&#8217;s 2012 track, &#8220;We Are Alive.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: 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