One of the best things about being a fan of Bruce Springsteen is the fact that he is always re-interpreting his own songs. Not only does he have a catalog of music that approaches a thousand titles, several of those titles have been reworked and re-arranged into different styles. The pounding rock of "Born In The USA" sometimes becomes a blues number. The piano invitation that opens "Thunder Road" sometimes becomes a harmony of acoustic guitars.
So sometimes when you're listening to an old Bruce song, you find yourself listening to a brand new Bruce song. That, my friends, is beauty, art, love and music at its finest.
This is a shining example ... the studio album cut of the song "If I Should Fall Behind" isn't bad, but it doesn't stand out as especially brilliant, by anyone's standards. It's just a nice little song, and even when Faith Hill remade it with her lovely voice, it was still just a nice little song, but nothing special.
But Bruce's reinterpretation of this, his own song, performed live here in this clip, is something special. He turned it into a folk waltz, and let the fiddles provide the musical hook. Suddenly, this is one of my most treasured Bruce songs.
And today I dedicate it to Mrs. Iowa Scribe ... love, like music, needs to live and grow and change -- and it needs to be granted the patience to do so.
And that's what this song is about.
So sometimes when you're listening to an old Bruce song, you find yourself listening to a brand new Bruce song. That, my friends, is beauty, art, love and music at its finest.
This is a shining example ... the studio album cut of the song "If I Should Fall Behind" isn't bad, but it doesn't stand out as especially brilliant, by anyone's standards. It's just a nice little song, and even when Faith Hill remade it with her lovely voice, it was still just a nice little song, but nothing special.
But Bruce's reinterpretation of this, his own song, performed live here in this clip, is something special. He turned it into a folk waltz, and let the fiddles provide the musical hook. Suddenly, this is one of my most treasured Bruce songs.
And today I dedicate it to Mrs. Iowa Scribe ... love, like music, needs to live and grow and change -- and it needs to be granted the patience to do so.
And that's what this song is about.
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