It takes guts to cover “Jungleland,” let alone as an acoustic show opener. But Patty Griffin has guts, and her cover is gorgeous. Watch and listen inside.
Author:
Ken Rosen (2080)
Watch Jesse Malin and Bruce Springsteen team up in the studio and on stage for Jesse’s gorgeous, heartbreaking ode to his mom, “Broken Radio.” It’s one of my all-time favorite Springsteen collaborations.
Bruce meets Bruce when Messrs. Hornsby and Springsteen team up on a gorgeous, twice-only cover of Don Henley’s “The End of the Innocence.”
Listen to two very different covers of “Route 66” recorded a half-century apart–both do justice to this 73-year-old R&B classic.
It’s a crossover! Listen in on my visit to “Drive All Night,” a Tori Amos podcast, in a special Tori-on-Bruce episode.
Let’s take another trip back to Bruce’s 1968 Notebook, where an 18-year-old Bruce Springsteen aims a bit too high this time.
One time only: Southside Johnny fronts The Bruce Springsteen Band on Marvin Gaye’s Motown classic, but it’s David Sancious who steals the show.
One time only: Bruce joins Joe Grushecky on one of the Iron City Houserockers’ best early tracks, “Junior’s Bar.”
Thanks to a pro-shot filmed appearance in a French radio studio, we can finally see and hear Ben Harper’s *complete* cover of “My Father’s House.”
It alternates between ragged and polished, it’s metaphorically inconsistent, and It has brilliant lyrical subtext that vanishes halfway through. But it rocks, and it charms, and it thrives both on vinyl and on stage. It’s “Human Touch.”