“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.
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Cover Me (983)
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.”
This smoking, sultry cover of “Cover Me” is enough to make me reconsider my loathing of the song.
Bruce’s last public premiere to date was an eerily prescient one: Jesse Malin’s “Meet Me at the End of the World.”
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.
One of rock’s most covered songs produced some memorable Springsteen on-stage performances.
Bruce plays a beautiful, evocative mandolin and adds his backing vocals on this beautiful American Babylon deep cut.
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.
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.”
One time only: Bruce covers Roger McGuinn’s (and Bob Dylan’s?) 1969 classic.