Bruce gives an old spiritual the Dixieland treatment and creates a setlist centerpiece in the process.
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“Erie Canal” is a nostalgic callback to a slower-paced world. Bruce’s version captures the wistfulness, pride, and celebration of two workers (one human and one equine) at the sunset of their careers.
One of the all-time great American folk heroes made a nightly appearance on the Seeger Sessions Tour.
Bruce joined a long line of artists in keeping an important African-American spiritual protest song alive and vibrant for generations to come.
In 2006, Bruce resurrected and revised an anti-war song from the Napoleonic era, filling it with resonance for the modern era.
Band-friendly and Ironically faithful to the historically inaccurate original, Bruce’s 1997 arrangement of “Jesse James” is likely to come out at both Seeger and E Street shows. Backstory and great performances inside.
Recorded during the freewheeling second Seeger Session, “Old Dan Tucker” led of Bruce’s 2006 album and became a nightly favorite on tour.
What else could Bruce close his holiday show sets with but the greatest rock and roll Christmas song of all time?
Watch Bruce tear it up on the piano(!) when he, Jimmy Vivino, and The Max Weinberg 7 cover Detroit Junior’s classic “Christmas Day.”
One time only: Bruce joins an all-star array of artists for a show-closing Christmas carol at Sting and Trudie Styler’s 2016 Rainforest Benefit show.