“Heaven Help the Lonely” should have been a hit single for Willie Nile; Bruce clearly enjoyed playing it with Willie at back-to-back Light of Day appearances.
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One time only: Bruce teams up with Billy Joel on Billy’s perennial hit “You May Be Right” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Anniversary Concerts.
Lucinda Williams covers Bruce in concert often, but she’s only covered him in the studio once. Take a listen to her version of “Factory” from her 2016 album, The Ghost of Highway 20.
Kurt Vile and the Violators nailed Bruce’s “Downbound Train” in concert, capturing and heightening the song’s underlying menacing obsession.
From the Legends of Springsteen files: Bruce and Max join cover band Stand and Deliver at the Classics Cafe in Westwood for rocking rendition of “Hippy Hippy Shake.”
Bruce Springsteen, The Soul Survivors, and “Expressway to Your Heart.” Can there be a Philly-er combination? I don’t think so.
Jesse Malin and friends gave us a lovely cover of one Bruce’s lighter tracks, from Light of Day 2017.
One time only: Bruce teams up with Dropkick Murphys on their anthemic “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” on St. Patrick’s Day in 2011.
For a brief time during the summer of 1975, Bruce’s shows featured a sweet, tender cover of The Drifters’ “Up on the Roof.”
Mojo Nixon’s never-released cover of “Badlands” is fresh, fierce, and fascinating–it deserves to be heard.