During sound checks on the Tunnel of Love Tour, Bruce occasionally covered one of Van Morrison’s loveliest songs.
It’s a bit of a mess on its own merits, but this early Steel Mill song paved the way for a Born to Run classic years later.
It takes some searching and stretching to find a Springsteen performance of one of the most beloved Motown songs ever.
An early Wild and Innocent outtake based on a still-standing bar bears the seeds of classic songs still to come.
Way back in 1976, Bruce invented some on-the-fly accompaniment for one of Patti Smith’s legendary improvised musical monologues.
Jon Landau logs a lone performer credit on this obscure hybrid outtake from the Darkness era.
This Nebraska-era demo uses cinematic vocabulary to devastating effect.
During the Born to Run Tour, Bruce worked up a simmering, slow burn of a cover of Solomon Burke’s 1962 classic.
One time only: Bruce and Southside continue the tradition of great male R&B duos performing Sam Cooke’s “Soothe Me.”
Bruce Springsteen’s most beautiful track ever is a cautionary tale about the destructive power of lies–both spoken and unspoken.