Set the wayback machine to almost a half-century ago, and we’ll eavesdrop on The Bruce Springsteen Band performing one of Bruce’s lost original rockers.
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Don’t bother me with that “Laurel or Yanni” thing. I’m still trying to figure out if it’s Sally or Annie.
“She’s a Woman” is one for the completists, a funky guitar showcase with substandard lyrics. Bruce would get it right a few years later with “She’s the One.”
“Like a Stranger” appeared at a few Bruce Springsteen Band Shows, representing one of Bruce’s early attempts to grapple with relationships through song.
“Why’s It So Hard” is a Springsteen original, but he takes a backseat in his only live performance of it. Southside Johnny takes the lead vocals, and Dave Sancious is absolutely on fire on the organ. Take a listen inside.
Bruce lets his psych rock flag fly in this 13-minute original epic, captured only once.
Even fifty years ago, Bruce Springsteen was stopping audiences in their tracks with this fifteen-minute, preachifying, testifying, rueful improv piece.
Bruce wrote and performed “When You Dance” with The Bruce Springsteen Band long before Southside Johnny covered and released it, and Bruce’s early guitar-jam version is an unreleased gem that belong’s in every fan’s collection.
“I Just Can’t Change” is a long lost Bruce Springsteen Band song, but its melody survived into the E Street Band era attached to another song.
“Funk Song” is a Springsteen original instrumental (or maybe two) that hasn’t been heard since 1975.