Long before “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” Bruce recorded another song influenced by Steinbeck’s novel: an E Street Band cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Vigilante Man.”
Two nights only: Little Steven takes the lead and Bruce Springsteen plays the sideman when Southside Jonny takes ill.
Brian W. Foster and Ashley Johnson remind us how lonely those first days of quarantine were with their haunting cover of “Radio Nowhere.”
Late on the High Hopes Tour, Bruce added a Clash cover to his set lists–one that temporary E Streeter Tom Morello was more than a little familiar with.
Bruce lent his instrumental support to one of the standout tracks on Patti’s debut album.
Tommaso Imperiali won third-place recognition for his powerful cover of “Devils & Dust” at this year’s Cover Me contest in Bergamo.
One time only: Bruce Springsteen backs Little Richard and Mick Jagger as they storm their way through Otis Redding’s 1965 classic.
Now it can be told: the secret Springsteen studio performance kept under wraps for a quarter century.
At the Cover Me finals in Bergamo, the surprise of the night was Iacopo Fedi’s powerful, acoustic reinvention of “Man’s Job.”
Inspired by a haunting expose of inner city poverty and his fascination with the American West, Bruce crafted a harrowing but redemptive story of a devoted mother and son.