Racing in the Street<\/a>” in the studio to warm up but rarely dared to cover it in public out of reverence for the original.<\/p>\nEnough that she actually learned the song from the bootleg of Bruce’s Atlanta ’78 show and still has to catch herself from singing “cover all the southern states” because that’s the way Bruce sang it that\u00a0 night. (There’s actually a clip on YouTube of her singing it that way in 2009.)<\/p>\n
And enough that she proves that there’s an exception to my cover rule: sometimes you don’t<\/em> have to do it better or do it differently–you just have to love the song.<\/p>\nAnd watching this Amy Ray Band performance from last spring… there’s no question that Amy loves this song.<\/p>\n