{"id":35903,"date":"2022-06-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=35903"},"modified":"2022-06-29T04:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T11:35:25","slug":"cover-me-david-gray-mansion-on-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/29\/cover-me-david-gray-mansion-on-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, David Gray: Mansion on the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How big of a Springsteen fan is David Gray?<\/p>\n<p>Big enough that on his 2007 live album, <em>A Thousand Miles Behind<\/em>, he included not one but <em>two<\/em> covers of Bruce&#8217;s songs.<\/p>\n<p>We listened to one of them&#8211;an<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/08\/cover-me-david-gray-streets-of-philadelphia\/\"> affecting cover<\/a> of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/30\/roll-of-the-dice-streets-of-philadelphia\/\">Streets of Philadelphia<\/a>&#8220;&#8211;a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the other one that speaks to Gray&#8217;s deep appreciation, though, because it&#8217;s a song you&#8217;ll almost never hear on the radio: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/06\/roll-of-the-dice-mansion-on-the-hill\/\">Mansion on the Hill<\/a>&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Nebraska.<\/em><\/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\/zlSAq-op000?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>On the live album, it&#8217;s overshadowed by the more well-known (and frankly stronger performance of) &#8220;Streets of Philadelphia,&#8221; but fortunately that wasn&#8217;t the only time Gray covered &#8220;Mansion on the Hill&#8221; live and captured it for posterity.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Gray stopped by Sirius XM to appear on the Howard Stern show, and &#8220;Mansion on the Hill&#8221; was one of the songs he performed live in the studio. Twelve years on from his live album, Gray turns in a much stronger performance with an arrangement that superbly captures Bruce&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Nebraska\u00a0<\/em>vibe, especially in the wordless bridge.<\/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\/68SkOBc20HE?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>Gray is no stranger to Bruce&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Nebraska\u00a0<\/em>material; he&#8217;s been known to play &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/04\/roll-of-the-dice-atlantic-city\/\">Atlantic City<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/13\/roll-of-the-dice-used-cars\/\">Used Cars<\/a>&#8221; live as well.<\/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\/YvY3Z7bmfeI?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>Gray is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidgray.com\/tour\">on tour this summer<\/a>&#8211;will he break out a new Springsteen cover when he plays New York and Philly (no New Jersey stop this year)?\u00a0Odds are pretty decent, I 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