“Everyone Loves You” is an unfinished (or more accurately, barely started) cast-off from Bruce’s 1979 home demo recordings.
In which my friend Steve and I get caught in a downpour, meet Steve Van Zandt, and then catch an amazing show in which only 3 of 35 songs were released post-1980.
The Pet Shop Boys’ version of “Last to Die” retains the surreal, late-night driving feel of the original and makes it danceable. Impressive feat.
We’re in obscure territory today with this instrumental jam from the Child/Steel Mill era.
Bruce and the Upstage Jam Band cover Etta James’ “The Blues is My Business.”
Matt Nathanson covers Bruce pretty often. And when he does, he often chooses “Thunder Road.”
The fascinating evolution of “The Ties That Bind,” prototyped, previewed, and repeatedly revised on the road long before it ever saw vinyl.
Bruce and Beaver Brown cover a Fats Domino classic at Big Man’s West in 1982.
A one-time-only cover of a Ramones classic.
Visit the vividly painted streetscape of “Santa Ana,” featuring a lost Clarence Clemons flute performance and dreamlike imagery.