Twice only: Bruce and the E Street Band tackle Steppenwolf’s anthem, “Born to Be Wild.”
Author:
Ken Rosen (2080)
From Margo Timmin’s Ty Tyrfu solo sessions back in 2009, this gorgeous and intimate performance of “If I Should Fall Behind” ranks among the song’s best covers.
It started as a lark but ended up biting social commentary. Let’s trace the curious evolution of “57 Channels.”
It takes guts to cover The Beatles’ orchestral “Eleanor Rigby” with just a four-person high school rock band, but Bruce Springsteen has never lacked in the guts department. Listen to The Castiles’ daring cover inside.
Twice in the mid-nineties, Bruce and Jerry Lee Lewis tackled Lewis’ first great hit together, and both times they fell short. Let’s take a look and listen to find out why.
Another outtake from the terrific One Step Up/Two Steps Back 1998 tribute project, Bimbo du Jour unleashes the inner punk in Bruce’s “No Surrender.”
Still missing in action after all these years, “Down by the River” is a straight up rocker featuring the E Street Band in all its glory that would have been right at home on The River.
One time only: Bruce Springsteen joins The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Little Richard, and a host of Hall of Fame all-stars for a cover of The Stones’ iconic “Start Me Up.”
An almost-forgotten rockabilly outcast from the Born in the U.S.A. sessions, “TV Movie” is a sly send-up of the cost of popular fame and a star turn for Professor Roy Bittan.
Take a listen to this lovely, flute-forward version of “My Hometown” by an Irish wedding band raising funds for a suicide prevention center in their own hometown.