{"id":23731,"date":"2020-12-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=23731"},"modified":"2023-01-02T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T00:55:54","slug":"cover-me-tebo-new-york-city-serenade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/14\/cover-me-tebo-new-york-city-serenade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Tebo: New York City Serenade"},"content":{"rendered":"

One-person band covers are all the rage during quarantine, and this year has brought a flood of “I‘m on Fire<\/a>” and “Dancing in the Dark<\/a>” covers.<\/p>\n

Every once in a while, though, a cover artist gets a bit more daring and goes deep, deep\u00a0deep\u00a0<\/em>into Bruce Springsteen’s catalog and selects a song that rarely gets a cover treatment.<\/p>\n

Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tebo went all the way back to 1973 and chose one of Bruce’s most complex and orchestral songs: “New York City Serenade.”<\/p>\n

Rather than attempt a recreation of the original, though, Tebo did what the best cover artists do: re-arrange the original to make it sound fresh and new. For “New York City” serenade, Tebo stripped the song down to its core and reinvented it as a straight-up rocker.<\/p>\n

Let’s see how he did.<\/p>\n