Deep into his cover of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” Silent Bear sense a new context for Bruce’s classic song and took it in a daring new direction.
At a pair of 1990 benefit shows, Bruce debuted a dark song about espionage and political conspiracy. It hasn’t been heard from since.
Three times only on the Tunnel of Love Tour, Bruce and the E Street Band closed their shows with a cover of Jackie Wilson’s breakthrough hit.
In their first studio collaboration since American Babylon, Joe Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen sing the joys of domesticity.
“The Star Spangled Banner” was written on and for a day like this very one. Watch Bruce Springsteen play a lovely version of it in 2004.
Billy Lee Riley might be too obscure to cover in concert, but we can hear Bruce pay tribute in private in his 1978 and 1988 soundchecks of “Is That All to the Ball (Mr. Hall.”
My favorite song on Western Stars is arguably the most romantic and (literally) cinematic song in Bruce’s entire catalog.
This smoking, sultry cover of “Cover Me” is enough to make me reconsider my loathing of the song.
“Losin’ Kind” is one of only two original Nebraska demos left in the vault, but its imprint can be found across Bruce’s catalog.
Bruce’s last public premiere to date was an eerily prescient one: Jesse Malin’s “Meet Me at the End of the World.”