Originally by Bruce Springsteen

All posts in the month of August will be covers.

Atlantic City is easily one of my favorite songs of all time, if not the favorite. Hell, it was the first song posted here. So it’s no easy task to make a version of this song I’m going to like, but The Hold Steady did.

The piano intro is a great melancholy intro, exactly what you would expect for this song, then the balls kick in. It’s such a perfect ape of the “big Springsteen” sound.