Did a surprising E Street through-line inspire Air Supply’s 1983 cover of Bruce’s 1973 classic?
One time only: Bruce and Billy Joel team up on Billy’s ode to blue-collar communities. Could there be a song better suited for a Billy and Bruce duet?
This under-the-radar Born in the U.S.A. outtake is the darkest in Bruce’s “car crash song” mini-genre.
One time only: Bruce paid tribute to Harry Chapin by covering “Remember When the Music” and acknowledging Chapin’s influence on his social activism.
Auckland-based Tom Sutcliffe turns in a tender reading of Bruce’s signature song.
Bruce and Joe Grushecky wrote this under-the-radar song together in the summer of ’95; it keeps popping up in new forms ever since.
One time only: Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp team up on John’s famously misinterpreted 1983 single.
They played it live for at least a decade prior, but in 2019, Big Heard Todd and the Monsters teamed up with Blues Traveler’s John Popper on a terrifically fun (if overly faithful) cover of “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).”
One time only: At an Atlanta soundcheck on the Tunnel of Love Tour, Bruce covered the musical inspiration for one his greatest anthems.
In 1977, Bruce had a killer backing track in search of some lyrics. The search continues.