{"id":14361,"date":"2019-11-27T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=14361"},"modified":"2020-12-17T07:43:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:43:49","slug":"cover-me-scott-jacobs-dry-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/cover-me-scott-jacobs-dry-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Scott Jacobs: Dry Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be in a groove lately with little-known artists covering Springsteen deep cuts, so let&#8217;s keep it going:<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s entry comes from Canadian folk singer Scott Jacobs, whose lovely acoustic guitar-and-pedal-steel arrangement of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/roll-of-the-dice-dry-lightning\/\">Dry Lightning<\/a>&#8221; beautifully captures Bruce&#8217;s tale of a disintegrating love affair.<\/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\/JVtfv-9YUyg?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>&#8220;Dry Lightning&#8221; is a tough song to cover&#8211;Bruce&#8217;s deceptively gentle melody serves as counterpoint to the increasingly jaded lyrics. Deliver a vocal performance that&#8217;s too subtle, and the song sails by without ever registering its bite. Go too far, and the song loses the tenderness that gives the song its resonance.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs finds the right balance.<\/p>\n<p>(But as a fellow Pacific Northwesterner, I can&#8217;t help but smile at Jacob&#8217;s choice of backdrop for his video: the seawall of his native Vancouver, B.C. on a gloriously and typically gray day. It&#8217;s tough to imagine dry lightning anywhere remotely around these parts.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian folk singer Marc Jacobs finds the soul of Bruce&#8217;s &#8220;Dry Lightning&#8221; and turns in a beautiful cover on a gray Vancouver 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