It was a surprising choice for a surprise performance, but it proved so nice they did it twice.
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During the Born to Run Tour, Bruce worked up a simmering, slow burn of a cover of Solomon Burke’s 1962 classic.
Twice only: Bruce joins The Rolling Stones on stage for a duet with Mick Jagger on “Tumbling Dice.”
One time only: Bruce joins Mick Jagger on stage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for one of the very first songs Bruce ever covered in concert.
One time only: Listen to Bruce rejoin his former band to take lead vocals on Walter Brown’s blues standard, “Confessin’ the Blues.”
One time only: Bruce joins Danny Clinch and the Tangiers Blues Band for an eight-minute jam to Willie Dixon’s early classic.
The Rolling Stones’ first #1 U.K. hit had a habit of turning up in Bruce’s set lists in the strangest places, but fortunately a couple of his team-ups were captured for posterity.
Watch Bruce join his friend Wolfgang Niedecken at a Berlin club for a loose, raucous cover of one of The Rolling Stones’ most popular songs.
From Bruce’s pre-E Street Days to just pre-pandemic, “Down the Road Apiece” has always been an epic, crowd-pleasing jam. Let’s watch and listen to some of the best inside.
The early E Street Band had a lot in common with the late Bruce Springsteen Band, and nowhere was that more apparent than in their cover of Rufus Thomas’ “Walking the Dog.”