It takes guts to cover “Jungleland,” let alone as an acoustic show opener. But Patty Griffin has guts, and her cover is gorgeous. Watch and listen inside.
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Bruce meets Bruce when Messrs. Hornsby and Springsteen team up on a gorgeous, twice-only cover of Don Henley’s “The End of the Innocence.”
Listen to two very different covers of “Route 66” recorded a half-century apart–both do justice to this 73-year-old R&B classic.
It’s a crossover! Listen in on my visit to “Drive All Night,” a Tori Amos podcast, in a special Tori-on-Bruce episode.
One time only: Southside Johnny fronts The Bruce Springsteen Band on Marvin Gaye’s Motown classic, but it’s David Sancious who steals the show.
One time only: Bruce joins Joe Grushecky on one of the Iron City Houserockers’ best early tracks, “Junior’s Bar.”
Thanks to a pro-shot filmed appearance in a French radio studio, we can finally see and hear Ben Harper’s *complete* cover of “My Father’s House.”
Bruce covered it several times over the years, as far back as 1971–but it took until 2009 before a taper could capture Bruce covering Chuck Berry’s seminal classic, “Roll Over Beethoven.”
In a studio appearance late last month, Of Monsters and Men played a quiet cover of Bruce Springsteen’s greatest hit, and it’s very, very good.
One time only: Bruce Springsteen performs Jimmy Cliff’s “The Harder They Come” with the original artist at SXSW.