Originally by Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen cover number four.

This song, and my playing it 30 times in a row one Sunday afternoon, is what made me want to do this month of cover songs. 

I love this cover.

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Originally by Bruce Springsteen

More Springsteen.

These two toured and only played Springsteen songs, and then released an album of the songs they played. Both the tour and the album were called “Darkness on the Edge of Your Town.”

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All posts in the month of August will be covers.

My love of this song predates my love of Springsteen and was probably my gateway to the Boss.

The first time I heard this band was at Michigan Fest in 2002. Everyone was waiting for the next band to set up, and then suddenly, in the middle of the crowd 3 guys just started playing and belting out an amazing cover of Prince’s When You Were Mine.  A couple of songs later, they moved the stage, plugged in, and I was hooked.

This song is from an  EP called Reservoir Songs. Five songs, all covers, all amazing. 

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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. 

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