{"id":18576,"date":"1992-02-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"1992-02-13T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=18576"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:04:59","slug":"cover-me-margo-timmins-if-i-should-fall-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1992\/02\/13\/cover-me-margo-timmins-if-i-should-fall-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Margo Timmins: If I Should Fall Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cowboy Junkies are no strangers to covering Bruce&#8217;s music in their inimitably sad style. Their stark covers of &#8220;State Trooper&#8221; and &#8220;Thunder Road&#8221; are right up there among the best Springsteen covers out there.<\/p>\n<p>But this one&#8217;s different.<\/p>\n<p>Margo Timmins&#8217; solo turn on &#8220;If I Should Fall Behind&#8221; is delicate, sweet, and so intimate you can hear the piano pedals.<\/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\/ugCpitUSvDI?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>Featuring Margo on lead vocals, Nick Craine on backgrounds (himself no stranger to Bruce&#8217;s music), and Witold Grabowiecki on piano, and Jeff Bird on bass, this darn-near perfect cover stems from Margo&#8217;s 2009 under-the-radar <em>Margo&#8217;s Corner\u00a0<\/em>recordings.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of my favorite performances of one of Bruce&#8217;s best songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 May 18, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Margo Timmin&#8217;s Ty Tyrfu solo sessions back in 2009, this gorgeous and intimate performance of &#8220;If I Should Fall Behind&#8221; ranks among the song&#8217;s best 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Let's see how a group of global artists interpret one of Bruce's most popular songs.","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\/2021\/09\/imonfire-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/imonfire-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/imonfire-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/imonfire-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/imonfire-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14456,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1992\/02\/14\/cover-me-danny-gone-if-i-should-fall-behind\/","url_meta":{"origin":18576,"position":4},"title":"Danny Gone: If I Should Fall Behind","author":"Ken","date":"February 14, 1992","format":false,"excerpt":"Brand new but instantly one of my top ten favorite Springsteen covers: take a listen to Danny Gone's gorgeous rendition of \"If I Should Fall Behind.\"","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\/2019\/11\/danny.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/danny.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/danny.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/danny.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/danny.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14363,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/21\/cover-me-marcel-lichter-western-stars\/","url_meta":{"origin":18576,"position":5},"title":"Cover Me, Marcel Lichter: Western Stars","author":"Ken","date":"December 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a lovely instrumental cover of the title track from Bruce's latest album, perfect accompaniment for a quiet weekend morning.","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\/2019\/11\/marcel.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/marcel.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/marcel.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/marcel.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/marcel.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67649,"href":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18576\/revisions\/67649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}