{"id":7889,"date":"2019-03-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2023-01-01T09:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T17:25:35","slug":"cover-me-river-city-extension-hungry-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/24\/cover-me-river-city-extension-hungry-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, River City Extension: Hungry Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure that Bruce&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/roll-of-the-dice-hungry-heart\/\">Hungry Heart<\/a>&#8221; lyrics are well-served by this cool arrangement by River City Extension&#8230; but then again, I&#8217;m not sure that Bruce&#8217;s own arrangement works particularly well either.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hungry Heart&#8221; has always generated some cognitive dissonance with its pop melody welded to lyrics of familial abandonment.<\/p>\n<p>So how about we just give a hall pass to anyone who wants to try something new when covering it, because this cover groove by the now-defunct River City Extension out of Toms River (barely a half-hour drive from Asbury Park) is too great to fault for style.<\/p>\n<p>Play it over your Sunday morning coffee&#8211;that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing right now.<\/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\/PIMUugdAXsY?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start your morning off with a cool groove: watch River City Extension put their unique spin on Bruce&#8217;s &#8220;Hungry Heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8260,"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":[450,2270],"class_list":["post-7889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-hungry-heart","tag-river-city-extension"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/rivercityextension2012-3.jpg?fit=620%2C417&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-23f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11081,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/25\/cover-me-minnie-driver-hungry-heart\/","url_meta":{"origin":7889,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me, Minnie Driver: Hungry Heart","author":"Ken","date":"July 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Minnie Driver's cover of \"Hungry Heart\" is more lush and romantic than Bruce's lyrics call for, but then again so was Bruce's original arrangement. 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