Bruce covered The Animals as far back as his Castiles days, but he saved one of their greatest hits for his first and only on-stage team-up with Tom Petty.
New lyrics for a Creedence Clearwater Revival classic combine with tragic inspiration in El Salvador in this fascinating early home demo.
Glasgow-based Johnny Mac and The Faithful gift us with a beautiful cover of Bruce’s “Across the Border.”
Forty years to the day singer-songwriter and political activist Victor Jara was captured and detained, Bruce paid tribute with a moving rendition of Jara’s “Manifesto.”
If “Candy’s Boy” is the lyric donor for “Candy’s Room,” “The Fast Song” is Candy’s musical parent.
What was it like to be in the room at the “We Are the World” recording session? Guest-blogger Clyde Kaplan knows–he was an assistant engineer at the session, and he shares his story inside.
One of Bruce’s perfect pop songs is hidden away on Gary U.S. Bonds’ 1982 album, On the Line.
Nineteen-year-old Bruce Springsteen grappled with the horrors of the Vietnam War in one of his earliest compositions.
One of the oldest songs from The Seeger Sessions is also the most fun. Let’s take a listen to this centuries-old folk song.
In the mid-eighties, the New Jersey music scene united to raise money to combat local hunger, and Bruce joined them for their benefit single.