One time only: Bruce joins Lucinda Williams on stage during a night off on the Seeger Sessions Tour for an epic, hard-rocking version of Lucinda’s “Joy.”
Author:
Ken Rosen (2080)
Adam Selzer’s intriguing arrangement re-imagines Bruce’s early classic as a chamber piece–and it works very well.
One time only: Bruce pays homage to (and pokes fun at) outgoing Yankees manager Joe Torre at a 2007 benefit for his Safe at Home foundation.
One time only: Bruce joins Jon Bon Jovi on “Who Says You Can’t Go Home,” a song that sounds like Bruce could have written it himself.
Canadian band Deep Dark Woods turns in a faithful cover of Bruce’s minimalist musing on the meaning of work.
For a couple of nights in 1977, Steve was the front man and Bruce was the sidekick. Listen in on a highlight from those shows, a wonderful “cover” of Little Steven’s “Some Things Just Don’t Change.”
It’s sonically rough and lyrically trite, but a 20-year-old Springsteen turns in a ferocious guitar performance in his early composition, “Good Lovin’ Woman.”
Forty years later, the Pointer Sisters’ cover of “The Fever” still smokes. Watch a rare vintage video performance inside.
Set the wayback machine to September 16, 1967, and we’ll listen to 17-year-old Bruce Springsteen tear up Mobey Grape’s “Omaha” in the earliest known live Springsteen recording.