One time only: Seventeen-year-old Bruce Springsteen covers Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” with his high school band, The Castiles.
“State Trooper” is unrivaled as Bruce Springsteen’s most harrowing and terrifying song, but it can’t match the song that inspired it. Backstory and rare performances inside.
Here’s a lovely instrumental cover of the title track from Bruce’s latest album, perfect accompaniment for a quiet weekend morning.
Watch Bruce’s powerful rendition of Bob Dylan’s immortal “Blowin’ in the Wind” from the televised S.O.S. Racisme Concert in 1988.
Kicking off a new series with a seasonal E Street fable.
Abandoned almost as soon as Bruce began it, “In Kansas” provides a glimpse of what might have developed into an early epic.
It took more than four decades for Bruce to cover “Good Lovin’,” but he made up for it when he did. Great performances inside.
Here’s a cover that will always rank among my favorites if only for the circumstances in which I first heard it.
For at least a moment, for at least a song, Bruce settles his inner struggle between building and burning.
Just as powerful as an instrumental as the Youngbloods’ original anti-war nightmare, The Bruce Springsteen Band does justice to Jesse Colin Young’s “Darkness, Darkness.”