In 2006, Bruce resurrected and revised an anti-war song from the Napoleonic era, filling it with resonance for the modern era.
Author:
Ken Rosen (2066)
Band-friendly and Ironically faithful to the historically inaccurate original, Bruce’s 1997 arrangement of “Jesse James” is likely to come out at both Seeger and E Street shows. Backstory and great performances inside.
Recorded during the freewheeling second Seeger Session, “Old Dan Tucker” led of Bruce’s 2006 album and became a nightly favorite on tour.
The true, winding road from a backyard birthday party to a critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning album.
Bruce plays his original holiday song for ribald laughs, but beneath its risque surface it has a lot to say.
What else could Bruce close his holiday show sets with but the greatest rock and roll Christmas song of all time?
Watch Bruce tear it up on the piano(!) when he, Jimmy Vivino, and The Max Weinberg 7 cover Detroit Junior’s classic “Christmas Day.”
One time only: Bruce joins an all-star array of artists for a show-closing Christmas carol at Sting and Trudie Styler’s 2016 Rainforest Benefit show.
This perennial holiday classic holds special meaning for E Street Nation: it’s the last song Clarence Clemons ever performed with the E Street Band.
In 2001, Bruce welcomed his holiday show audiences each night with a warm, merry cover of Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock.”