Cover me: Bruce Springsteen's top 7 cover songs

Rothenberg for News Bruce Springsteen will be at Giants Stadium on July 27, 28, and 31. It's probably a good measure of how much fun Bruce Springsteen seemed to have on the just-concluded European leg of his "Magic" tour that he dusted off a couple of rock 'n' roll classics. As the sets got longer - a show that was running maybe two and a half hours in the U.S. got as long as three hours and 10 minutes in Oslo - first Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" and then the Isley Brothers' "Twist and Shout" dropped in for a visit. This is always good news - not because Bruce does them better than anyone else, but because 1) those seminal rock classics fit perfectly with what Bruce still does with his own music, and 2) they say that he's still a rock fan. You have to figure the main reason he plays "Summertime Blues," besides it being... [read full story]