One time only (that we know of, at least): The Bruce Springsteen Band covers Dave Mason’s first hit, “Only You Know and I Know.”
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Steve Van Zandt takes the lead on a stunning cover of Willie Dixon’s “You Know My Love.” Oh, and Bruce plays on it, too.
Listen to two very different covers of “Route 66” recorded a half-century apart–both do justice to this 73-year-old R&B classic.
One time only: Southside Johnny fronts The Bruce Springsteen Band on Marvin Gaye’s Motown classic, but it’s David Sancious who steals the show.
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.
“Jumbeliah” marks a transition in Bruce’s songwriting and provides a fascinating look at one of the only original compositions he created for the short-lived Dr. Zoom and the Sonic Boom.
For a young Jersey Shore songwriter fascinated with American westerns, undersea cowboys is as high concept as it gets.
Almost certainly a holdover from the Steel Mill era, the heavy “Do It With Feeling” is ill-suited for the light-on-its-feet Bruce Springsteen Band.
One time only: The Bruce Springsteen Band plays a slight love song that might be a musical ancestor of “Kitty’s Back.”