{"id":37007,"date":"2022-08-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=37007"},"modified":"2022-08-14T01:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T08:19:15","slug":"cover-me-silent-bear-badlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/14\/cover-me-silent-bear-badlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Silent Bear: Badlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many great Springsteen covers out there that I try not to feature the same artist multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m a sucker for a fresh interpretation of one of Bruce&#8217;s songs, and I&#8217;m hard pressed to name anyone more inventive with their covers than Silent Bear. (Check out his <a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/24\/cover-me-silent-bear-tenth-avenue-freeze-out\/\">funky, improvisational, thirteen-minute cover<\/a> of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/19\/roll-of-the-dice-tenth-avenue-freeze-out\/\">Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out<\/a>&#8221; to see what I mean.)<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s entry is just as creative.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badlands by Silent Bear\" width=\"758\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1322566231&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=758\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lyrically, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/20\/roll-of-the-dice-badlands\/\">Badlands<\/a>&#8216; has always been one of my favorites,&#8221; Silent Bear explained to me. &#8220;If I choose to cover a song, most of the time, I like to challenge myself by coming up with an original arrangement. This was something that popped into my head that I just went with and it worked.\u00a0 As a solo performance, I wanted the power of the lyric to come through without the support of a large &#8216; wall of Sound&#8217; band\u00a0 arrangement like the original. In retrospect, my arrangement kind of reminds me of some of Bruce&#8217;s <em>Nebraska<\/em> arrangements, raw and blues-driven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Raw and bluesy are perfect descriptions of Silent Bear&#8217;s 2004 live performance captured above. It preserves both the darkness and the defiance of Bruce&#8217;s lyrics while recasting it in a completely new musical light.<\/p>\n<p>For more of Silent Bear&#8217;s\u00a0 creative covers and original songs, check out his Soundcloud <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-521341814\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriter Silent Bear returns with a raw, blues-driven cover of Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s rock 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