Racing in the Streets

I posted Patty Griffin's cover of Springteen's "Racing in the Streets" years ago. Here is a cover of the song done by Emmylou Harris.

Thunder Road

To mark today as the 40th anniversary of the album release of Born To Run, here is Springsteen performing the first song on the album, "Thunder Road", in 1975.

My City of Ruins

From a Springsteen tribute concert, Zac Brown and Mavis Staples performing "My City of Ruins".

Atlantic City

Natalie Maines, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite cover one of my favorite Springsteen songs,"Atlantic City".

Highway Patrolman

As hard as it is to believe, Bruce Springsteen turned 65 today. To mark the special day, here he is about seven years ago performing "Highway Patrolman" from the album Nebraska.

Satan's Jewel Crown

A Bruce Springsteen performance of "Satan's Jewel Crown".

Sweet Soul Music

"Sweet Soul Music" went to #2 on the pop charts in 1967. Written by Arthur Conley and Otis Redding, it is based on the melody from the Sam Cooks song "Yeah Man". Here is Conley's performance of the song.



From 1986 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's rendition.

I Wish I Were Blind

Yesterday I posted a Ben Harper cover of a Bruce Springsteen song. Today The Boss himself is performing another on of my favorites, "I Wish I Were Blind".

Atlantic City

Here is Ben Harper's cover of one of my favorite Bruce Springsteen songs, "Atlantic City".

Darlene Love

I am going to do a series of posts this week focused on women that are featured in the new film Twenty Feet from Stardom. Today we have Darlene Love. The first clip is Love on  Letterman recently discussing the film and her career.



Originally recorded in the early 60's, "A Fine Fine Boy"  performed recently with Bruce Springsteen.



Love performs here with her original group, the Blossoms, and Tom Jones, a 1971 recording of "River Deep, Mountain High".

The River

From almost a quarter century ago, Bruce Springsteen and Sting perform The River.

Woody's Centennial

To mark tomorrow's Centennial of Woody Guthrie's birth, here are some covers of his songs.

Lila Downs performs "Pastures of Plenty" and "This Land is Your Land"

Bruce Springsteen performs "I Ain't Got No Home"

Woody's Granddaughter, Sarah Lee Guthrie. performs "This Land is You Land"

Levon Helm (1940-2012)

A post to mark the passing of Levon Helm. (ABC Obituary) One of the most influential musicians in what has become known as Americana music. Starting out in the 1960's as a singer and drummer with The Band, he battled throat cancer in the 1990's, but came back to win two Grammys in the 2000's with his albums Dirt Farmer and Electric Dirt. I saw him perform at the Ramshead Live a couple years ago, and it was one of the best live shows I have ever seen.

The first video below is from his days with The Band, and the second two are from his more recent solo career.

From the 1978 film The Last Waltz, Helm playing drums and singing lead with the Band—"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"



"A Train Robbery"—A song about Jesse James from the album Dirt Farmer



The Springsteen song "Atantlic City"

Clarence Clemons

A post to make the passing of Clarence Clemons, the sax player for the E Street Band. Without Clemons' sax Bruce Springsteen would probably never have made it as big as he has.

Here is Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing "Jungleland" with one of Clemons' memorable sax solos.



A recent interview

Bruce Springsteen

Last year I did a post of Bruce Springsteen covers, but I have not done a post of The Boss doing his own songs. So here are a couple.

"I Wish I Were Blind" from the 1992 album Human Touch



"I Am On Fire" from his most commercially successful album, Born in the USA.




"Highway Patrolman" from his 1982 album Nebraska.



"Spirit in the Night" from his very first album, in 1973, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.

Springsteen Covers

Today some of my favorite Bruce Springsteen covers.

First, Patty Griffin's version of "Racing in the Streets".



Levon Helm's version of "Atlantic City'. I saw him perform this about two years ago.




Finally, Emmylou Harris' version of "Mansion on the Hill". She recorded this on here 1992 album "At the Ryman">