E Street Shuffle Archive

Nineteen-year-old Bruce Springsteen grappled with the horrors of the Vietnam War in one of his earliest compositions.

One of the oldest songs from The Seeger Sessions is also the most fun. Let’s take a listen to this centuries-old folk song.

In the mid-eighties, the New Jersey music scene united to raise money to combat local hunger, and Bruce joined them for their benefit single.

Deep into his cover of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” Silent Bear sense a new context for Bruce’s classic song and took it in a daring new direction.

At a pair of 1990 benefit shows, Bruce debuted a dark song about espionage and political conspiracy. It hasn’t been heard from since.

Three times only on the Tunnel of Love Tour, Bruce and the E Street Band closed their shows with a cover of Jackie Wilson’s breakthrough hit.

In their first studio collaboration since American Babylon, Joe Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen sing the joys of domesticity.

“The Star Spangled Banner” was written on and for a day like this very one. Watch Bruce Springsteen play a lovely version of it in 2004.

Billy Lee Riley might be too obscure to cover in concert, but we can hear Bruce pay tribute in private in his 1978 and 1988 soundchecks of “Is That All to the Ball (Mr. Hall.”

My favorite song on Western Stars is arguably the most romantic and (literally) cinematic song in Bruce’s entire catalog.