{"id":36624,"date":"2022-07-29T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=36624"},"modified":"2022-07-28T18:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T01:48:39","slug":"cover-me-alison-mosshart-state-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/29\/cover-me-alison-mosshart-state-trooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Alison Mosshart: State Trooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One of my favorite car songs,&#8221; Alison Mosshart told <em>Forbes<\/em> during the deep heart of the pandemic, &#8220;which I just covered and I fucking love is &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/22\/roll-of-the-dice-state-trooper\/\">State Trooper<\/a>,&#8217; by Bruce Springsteen. I&#8217;m obsessed with that song. I just can sit and sing it all day. I love how cinematic it is, I love [how] it&#8217;s so visual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also dark and alienated, which is how a lot of us were feeling in the middle of 2020. Maybe that&#8217;s what prompted Mosshart to record a cover and produce a video of it during her at-home sessions that summer.<\/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\/sy7m7KUuwPs?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>Mosshart&#8217;s version is intense and ominous, laden with eerie effects and a few appropriately salty liberties with Bruce&#8217;s lyrics. Oh and she nails that scream, too. If this cover doesn&#8217;t make your arm hair stand on end, you&#8217;re not paying close enough attention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the dark heart of the pandemic, Alison Mosshart recorded a chilling cover of the dark heart of 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