Rarities abound at gigs played on this day. Listen to live performances of “Lion’s Den,” “So Young and In Love,” “Janey, Don’t You Lose Heart,” and more. Plus: Greatest Hits is released on this date in 1995.
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Bruce’s parents marry, Steel Mill records in the studio, and Bruce and the band play a fun Australian winery show. Plus: Friday Night Videos airs a private reel on Bruce.
Bruce wasn’t Steel Mill’s only songwriter. Co-lead vocalist Robbin Thompson contributed his own song to the band’s set lists, but their version was a far cry from Mercy Flight’s original.
Long before “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” nineteen-year-old Bruce Springsteen adapted another great work of literature into song.
Is a discarded fifty-years-old, thirty-minutes-long opus really the secret origin of “Kitty’s Back,” “Cadillac Ranch,” and “One Step Up?” Just listen and decide for yourself.
Although it’s believed that Bruce played blues classic “I’m Sitting on Top of the World” on multiple occasions, only one recording and definitively dated performance survives. Listen to it inside.
We’re in obscure territory today with this instrumental jam from the Child/Steel Mill era.