Part 2 in a new series spotlighting songs that are covered too frequently to feature individually–this time we take a look at five great versions of “Dancing in the Dark.”
Author:
Ken Rosen (2080)
If you’ve ever wondered what it would sound like of Bruce crammed all of his Darkness themes into one unreleased outtake, this song is for you.
When Southside Johnny took ill and couldn’t perform, Little Steven saved the day by assembling an All-Star Revue to cover Junior Wells’ classic “Little By Little.”
It’s the first song Bruce and Joe Grushecky ever performed together and one of the greatest mysteries of rock and roll.
Did a surprising E Street through-line inspire Air Supply’s 1983 cover of Bruce’s 1973 classic?
One time only: Bruce and Billy Joel team up on Billy’s ode to blue-collar communities. Could there be a song better suited for a Billy and Bruce duet?
This under-the-radar Born in the U.S.A. outtake is the darkest in Bruce’s “car crash song” mini-genre.
One time only: Bruce paid tribute to Harry Chapin by covering “Remember When the Music” and acknowledging Chapin’s influence on his social activism.
Auckland-based Tom Sutcliffe turns in a tender reading of Bruce’s signature song.
Bruce and Joe Grushecky wrote this under-the-radar song together in the summer of ’95; it keeps popping up in new forms ever since.