Author: Ken Rosen (2080)
Cover Me, 13th Alibi and DiLiA: Cover Me
This smoking, sultry cover of “Cover Me” is enough to make me reconsider my loathing of the song.
Roll of the Dice: Losin' Kind
“Losin’ Kind” is one of only two original Nebraska demos left in the vault, but its imprint can be found across Bruce’s catalog.
MatR: Jesse Malin and Bruce Springsteen: Meet Me at the End of the World
Bruce’s last public premiere to date was an eerily prescient one: Jesse Malin’s “Meet Me at the End of the World.”
Cover Me, Jim van der Zee: Highway 29
Dutch singer-songwriter catapulted his career into motion by covering one of his musical hero’s best-known songs and one of his least-known.
Cover Me: Kansas City
One of rock’s most covered songs produced some memorable Springsteen on-stage performances.
Roll of the Dice: Missing
The sole escapee to date from Bruce’s unreleased 1994 hip hop/EDM album, “Missing” is a hauntingly powerful and daringly experimental meditation on loss and absence.
MatR: Joe Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen: Billy's Waltz
Bruce plays a beautiful, evocative mandolin and adds his backing vocals on this beautiful American Babylon deep cut.
Cover Me, Allan Clarke: If I Were the Priest
Allan Clarke’s cover of “If I Was the Priest” had a 46-year head start on Bruce’s own version. Read the backstory inside.
Roll of the Dice: America Under Fire
The generals can’t see the reason there’s such a high percentage of treason. They’re quite sure it must just be the season.
MatR: R.E.M. and Bruce Springsteen: Man on the Moon
A nightly highlight of the Vote for Change Tour wasn’t political at all–it was the Stipe/Springsteen team-up on the Andy Kaufman tribute, “Man on the Moon.”