{"id":32747,"date":"2022-02-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=32747"},"modified":"2022-02-04T04:35:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T12:35:07","slug":"cover-me-david-mullen-back-in-your-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/04\/cover-me-david-mullen-back-in-your-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, David Mullen: Back in Your Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a stack of great Springsteen covers that I never get around to featuring, because I can&#8217;t find any information about the artists. That doesn&#8217;t leave me much to write about, so I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while, though, I stumble back across one of them, and if it moves me in the moment I may just spotlight it anyway and give myself the morning off.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s one of those days. I love this cover of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/roll-of-the-dice-back-in-your-arms\/\">Back in Your Arms<\/a>&#8221; by David Mullen, and if I knew how to reach the Scotland-based (at the time, at least) artist, I&#8217;d let him know. But his video is eleven years old, and it looks like he stopped updating his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC5t7bTPwIMUdbBruKtqWG0w\">YouTube channel<\/a> three years later. (It&#8217;s worth checking out anyway, because there are a few very nice off-the-beaten-track Springsteen covers there.)<\/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\/Rgg1mAFhh8k?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>Bruce&#8217;s original version of &#8220;Back in Your Arms&#8221; is exquisitely melodramatic, but the song works equally well in an easier, stripped-down arrangement. Mullen clearly appreciates the source material, and his respect for Bruce&#8217;s lyrics comes through in his delivery. I enjoy this one a lot.<\/p>\n<p>David, if you&#8217;re out there reading this by chance: thanks for sharing your talent with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland-based David Mullen dials back the melodrama in Bruce&#8217;s original version but preserves the passion and heartache. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32748,"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":[4],"tags":[250,3405],"class_list":["post-32747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-back-in-your-arms","tag-david-mullen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mullen.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-8wb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26961,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/cover-me-moa-holmsten-badlands\/","url_meta":{"origin":32747,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me, Moa Holmsten: Badlands","author":"Ken","date":"April 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"A case of writer's block led a Swedish heavy metal\/avant-garde artist to cover an unfamiliar American rock star, and the result was one of the best Springsteen covers ever.","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\/04\/moabadlands.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/moabadlands.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/moabadlands.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/moabadlands.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/moabadlands.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12166,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/14\/cover-me-tori-amos-im-on-fire\/","url_meta":{"origin":32747,"position":1},"title":"Cover Me, Tori Amos: I&#8217;m on Fire","author":"Ken","date":"August 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u2019s a crossover! 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