Artist	Song
The Gaslight Anthem	The '59 Sound
from The '59 Sound (2008)
The Hold Steady	Stuck Between Stations
from Boys and Girls In America (2006)
Arcade Fire	Keep the Car Running
from Neon Bible (2007)
The National	Mr. November
from Alligator (2005)
Pearl Jam	Better Man
from Vitalogy (1994)
Jesse Malin	Wendy
from The Fine Art of Self-Destruction (2003)
The Wallflowers	6th Avenue Heartache
from Bringing Down the Horse (with PDF Booklet) (2010)
Billy Bragg & Wilco	California Stars
from Mermaid Avenue (2007)
Bright Eyes	Another Travelin' Song
from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)
Pete Yorn	Strange Condition
from Musicforthemorningafter (2001)
Marah	East
from 20,000 Streets Under the Sky (2004)
Ryan Adams	New York, New York
from Gold (2001)
Crooked Fingers	Big Darkness
from Red Devil Dawn (2003)
Social Distortion	99 to Life
from Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell (1992)
Counting Crows	Rain King
from August and Everything After (1993)
Against Me!	New Wave
from New Wave (2007)
Dropkick Murphys	Never Forget
from The Meanest of Times (Deluxe Edition) (2007)
Son Volt	Underground Dream
from The Search (Deluxe Version) (2007)
Badly Drawn Boy	The Time of Times
from Born In the UK (2006)
Titus Andronicus	...And Ever
from The Monitor (2010)
Joe D'urso & Stone Caravan	Rock and Roll Call
from Rock and Roll Station (2000)
Melissa Etheridge	No Souvenirs
from Brave and Crazy (1990)
The Avett Brothers	Kick Drum Heart
from I and Love and You (2009)
Jon Dee Graham	Big Sweet Life
from Summerland (1999)

Comment:

With his leather jacket, 501s, and week’s worth of stubble, Bruce de-wussified the singer-songwriter, proving you don’t have to plug in to rock out — and when you [i]do[/i] plug in, you don’t have to leave your emotions backstage. Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road” cuts across the landscape between Nebraska and the Jersey Turnpike, where a white trash bootlegger ducks the [i]federales[/i] like one of Springsteen’s Sinaloa cowboys. Melissa Etheridge’s shredded-heart rocker “No Souvenirs” harks back to Bruce’s plain-dealing storytelling, where the road offers redemption for the broken souls of lovers gone astray. And in the Hold Steady’s “Stuck Between Stations,” fuzz-bomb power chords evaporate into a piano riff straight out of “Born to Run” as vocalist Craig Finn paints a chilling Midwestern portrait of trampled expectations and a poet’s suicide. Not enough? Try roots rocker John Eddie, alt-country fave Ryan Adams, and more — all baptized in waters drawn from Bruce’s wellspring.

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