One time only: Bruce joined Lucinda Williams and her band on stage in London to perform a cover of Melvin Jackson’s “Disgusted.”
Author:
Ken Rosen (2080)
Twenty years before “Born to Run” (the book) and “Springsteen on Broadway,” Bruce started his autobiography as a song.
Bruce’s most recent album features his earliest officially released cover: Bo Diddley’s “You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover.”
As far as I’m concerned, Dave Alvin’s cover of “Seeds” is the definitive version of the song.
Is a discarded fifty-years-old, thirty-minutes-long opus really the secret origin of “Kitty’s Back,” “Cadillac Ranch,” and “One Step Up?” Just listen and decide for yourself.
My last show of 2012 was a nice Wrecking Ball capstone, with lots of small but satisfying surprises.
My first show in Milano hooked me on Italian shows forever–once I managed to survive getting inside.
Mere weeks before Little Steven released his cover of Etta James’ “The Blues is My Business,” he and Bruce (and the rest of the Upstage Jam Band) covered it at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park.
A solid setlist, a loose performance, and some surprising placements made for a great night in Vancouver on the Wrecking Ball Tour.
The Bruce cover that never was: Bette Midler recorded her version of “Pink Cadillac,” but Bruce refused to let her release it. Find out why and check out her live performance of it inside.