In 1997, Bruce plucked Sis Cunningham’s bitingly funny dust bowl chronicle from obscurity when he recorded it in his very first Seeger Session. Nine years later, it would become a nightly tour showpiece.
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Bruce gives an old spiritual the Dixieland treatment and creates a setlist centerpiece in the process.
“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.
The true, winding road from a backyard birthday party to a critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning album.
Bruce plays his original holiday song for ribald laughs, but beneath its risque surface it has a lot to say.