One time only: Bruce joins The Wallflowers on their 1996 deep cut, “God Don’t Make Lonely Girls,” when the band’s 1997 tour brings them to Bruce’s neck of the woods.
Scottish band Camera Obscura makes a subtle change to Bruce’s enduring, romantic “Tougher Than the Rest,” to powerful effect.
One night only: Bruce sits in with The Patti Smith Group on guitar for Patti’s improvisational “You Can Dig It.”
One of the last songs Buckwheat Zydeco recorded in the studio was a reggae reinvention of Bruce’s torch song, “Back in Your Arms.” And it works.
The biggest mystery about “Mystery Train” (besides why it’s called that): why’d it take so long for Bruce to cover it?
I’m not sure where it came from, but Sarah Hepburn’s brooding cover of “Adam Raised a Cain” is wonderful regardless.
One time only: a starstruck Bruce Springsteen joins Roy Orbison and an all-star band on Orbison’s very first self-written song.
Listen to the E Street Band cover the Stax classic “Green Onions” in a rare instrumental performance.
Today’s roll of the dice: a tantalizing glimpse of a song still very much lost in the vault… if it ever got recorded at all.
From March 2018, the X Ambassadors prove their fandom by delivering a fantastic, moody cover of Bruce’s “Stolen Car.”