{"id":24579,"date":"1984-01-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"1984-01-25T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=24579"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:30:28","slug":"cover-me-13th-alibi-and-dilia-cover-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1984\/01\/25\/cover-me-13th-alibi-and-dilia-cover-me\/","title":{"rendered":"13th Alibi and DiLiA: Cover Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I published my\u00a0<em>Roll of the Dice\u00a0<\/em>article on &#8220;Cover Me&#8221; and proclaimed it my least favorite Springsteen song ever.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t particularly generous in my review, but in all fairness I did caveat: &#8220;There&#8217;s an argument to be made for &#8216;Cover Me&#8217; being a decent pop song if only it was set to a different backing track and arrangement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, J.D. Desharnais of the New York City band 13th Alibi certainly set me straight on that.<\/p>\n<p>J.D. saw my post on a Springsteen-related Facebook group and directed me to his band&#8217;s smoking 2013 performance of &#8220;Cover Me,&#8221; featuring guest vocalist DiLiA.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me: even if you hate &#8220;Cover Me&#8221;&#8211;<em>especially<\/em> if you hate it, in fact&#8211;you need to watch this. Imagine &#8220;Cover Me&#8221; arranged like &#8220;The Fever,&#8221; and that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re about to hear.<\/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\/MDxtlX5xFwg?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>DiLiA and 13th Alibi recognized the sultry, sensual heat at the heart of &#8220;Cover Me,&#8221; and they zeroed right in on it.<\/p>\n<p>Their performance is fantastic, and it&#8217;s enough to make me reconsider my opinion of the song. I now rank it\u00a0<em>above<\/em> &#8220;I&#8217;ll Stand By You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(There ain&#8217;t no saving <em>that\u00a0<\/em>song. Prove me wrong, please.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, J.D.!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 January 16, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This smoking, sultry cover of &#8220;Cover Me&#8221; is enough to make me reconsider my loathing of the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24617,"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":[3611,4],"tags":[3062,942,3061],"class_list":["post-24579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitusa","category-cover-me","tag-13th-alibi","tag-cover-me","tag-dilia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dilia.jpg?fit=900%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-6or","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15956,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/05\/cover-me-long-black-veil\/","url_meta":{"origin":24579,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me: Long Black Veil","author":"Ken","date":"February 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Lefty Frizzell's 1959 tale of a falsely accused man who accepts his sentence rather than confess his secret was a natural temptation for a Bruce Springsteen cover treatment. 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