One of the rare outtakes from the Seeger Sessions, “Hobo’s Lullaby” features Bruce and Pete Seeger in one of their few studio recordings together.
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Pittsburgh rockers The Ghost Hounds team up with Sasha Allen on a terrific cover of one of Bruce’s greatest hits.
Twice only: Bruce paid tribute to Wilson Pickett with his own version of “Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do).” Just don’t call it a cover.
BOOM a LOON, Robert J. Hunter, and Eddy Smith reinvent Bruce’s greatest hit with a cool funk groove.
Bruce debuted his cover of “When You Walk in the Room” at his legendary stand at the Bottom Line; he reprised it more than thirty years later.
One time only: Bruce joins Roy Orbison on one of Roy’s earliest and most influential hits.
Ken Tizzard of The Watchmen contributed a deeply empathic cover of “Devils and Dust” to a Newfoundland radio station’s Springsteen tribute.
One time only (that was captured, at least): Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band take a break from rehearsing new Darkness Tour songs with an impromptu cover of The Yardbirds’ classic “Heart Full of Soul.”
One time only: Bruce stands in for Bono at a surprise World AIDS Day benefit concert in Times Square, in a callback to the band’s famous 1987 video.
Southern rocker Rod Melancon perfectly translates “57 Channels” to the stage without losing the original’s dystopian, alienated spirit.