{"id":392,"date":"2018-01-22T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2020-11-24T21:54:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T05:54:58","slug":"cover-me-the-knack-dont-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/22\/cover-me-the-knack-dont-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, The Knack: Don&#8217;t Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favorite Bruce covers: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/03\/roll-of-the-dice-dont-look-back\/\">Don&#8217;t Look Back<\/a>&#8221; by The Knack.\u00a0\u00a0(I&#8217;m a child of the 1980s. No apologies.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re gonna cover a Bruce Springsteen song, you either need to reinvent it or completely commit to it. These guys did the latter&#8211;and they wisely chose a song so well suited to their style that you could be forgiven for assuming it was their own material.<\/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\/yBAMzLfatOA?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favorite Bruce covers: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Look Back&#8221; by The Knack.\u00a0\u00a0(I&#8217;m a child of the 1980s. 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