“Santa Ana” returns after more than three decades away, Nils steals the stage at a Seeger Sessions show in Birmingham, and Bruce debuts a brand new song: “Yankees Win.”
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Open All Night (9)
On this date: Bruce gives a revealing radio interview, plays “Prove It ’78” for the last time for 32 years, and makes the first of many Light of Day appearances. More highlights and tons of video inside.
The original River Tour kicks off with a Bob Seger duet, Bruce releases an American Land Edition of his Seeger Sessions album, and Springsteen on Broadway makes its debut. Many, many more highlights inside.
Recorded the same way as Bruce’s original, this daring interpretation of “Open All Night” has a cool, Canned Heat groove to it.
The only electric rocker on Nebraska, “Open All Night” was destined for greater heights than its original arrangement.
“The Big Payback” is a Nebraska-era B-side obscurity, as tight, taut, and sinister as anything on the album it didn’t make but a whole lot more fun to sing.
“Living on the Edge” is a glorious hot mess of a song. An unreleased outtake until 1998, it nevertheless spawned no less than three officially released Springsteen originals along the way.
In honor of this week’s #TheHomeShows, here’s Pearl Jam’s scorching one-off cover of “Open All Night.”
A return to the Seeger Sessions tour, or so it seemed at Cape Town Night 2.