E Street Shuffle Archive

The biggest mystery about “Mystery Train” (besides why it’s called that): why’d it take so long for Bruce to cover it?

I’m not sure where it came from, but Sarah Hepburn’s brooding cover of “Adam Raised a Cain” is wonderful regardless.

One time only: a starstruck Bruce Springsteen joins Roy Orbison and an all-star band on Orbison’s very first self-written song.

Listen to the E Street Band cover the Stax classic “Green Onions” in a rare instrumental performance.

From March 2018, the X Ambassadors prove their fandom by delivering a fantastic, moody cover of Bruce’s “Stolen Car.”

One time only: At a 1988 soundcheck in Tacoma, Bruce covered The Everly Brothers’ 1962 hit, “Crying in the Rain.” Listen to it inside.

This remarkable folk arrangement of “My Lucky Day” reveals the beauty and tenderness of the song more than Bruce’s original arrangement ever did.

Bruce played Dion’s “The Wanderer” three times with its original artist, long before he took a run at it with the E Street Band. Watch and listen to great performances across three decades.

On his 1982 album On the Line, Gary U.S. Bonds covers Bruce’s “Heartbreak Hotel” re-write, “Club Soul City.”

From his Destination Anywhere tour in 1997, Jon Bon Jovi treats Japanese fans to a faithful cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Fade Away.”