{"id":11791,"date":"2019-08-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2019-08-18T06:13:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T13:13:24","slug":"cover-me-patty-griffin-jungleland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/18\/cover-me-patty-griffin-jungleland\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Patty Griffin: Jungleland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes guts to cover Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s &#8220;Jungleland.&#8221; It takes even more guts to do so with nothing more than an acoustic guitar and a bass to accompany you.<\/p>\n<p>Patty Griffin has nothing if not guts.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year in Philadelphia, on her first U.S. tour since defeating breast cancer, she stepped up to the microphone and opened her show with a most unexpected song choice. There are a few videos floating around of it, but the fact that they all seem to miss the opening bars of the introduction show just how off-guard the audience must have been caught.<\/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\/eJMq8_q7K28?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>Patty&#8217;s cover is brave, but more than that: it&#8217;s beautiful, capturing the essence of Bruce&#8217;s street war ballad in quiet contemplation. Even the guitar solo works, and in the moments leading up to it, I couldn&#8217;t imagine how it possibly would.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know, Patty only performed &#8220;Jungleland&#8221; one other time, in New York just two days later. That&#8217;s too bad&#8211;this is one cover I&#8217;d very much like to hear live.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes guts to cover &#8220;Jungleland,&#8221; let alone as an acoustic show opener. But Patty Griffin has guts, and her cover is gorgeous. Watch and listen inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12233,"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":[428,2440],"class_list":["post-11791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-jungleland","tag-patty-griffin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Patty-Griffin-6-620x414.jpg?fit=620%2C414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-34b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30436,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/cover-me-gregory-alan-isakov-and-patty-griffin-highway-29\/","url_meta":{"origin":11791,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me, Gregory Alan Isakov and Patty Griffin: Highway 29","author":"Ken","date":"October 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Patty Griffin and Gregory Alan Isakov go all-Bruce in the encores of their current tour. 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