As usual for Bruce Springsteen, there are a few select media appearances before the release of a new album. For Wrecking Ball, Bruce has chosen (huge Bruce fan) Jimmy Fallon. This week is Bruce week on Late Night, with multiple Springsteen appearances, as well as Kenny Chesney, John Legend, and Elvis Costello showing up to pay their musical respects.
Early word on twitter and Facebook indicated that Bruce and the E Street Band played We Take Care Of Our Own and Wrecking Ball on the show.
We were sitting around in the back room of the Something Else! studios, swilling cold bottles of Lone Star and waiting for Late Night to come on when news flew over twitter that that crazy Fallon had already uploaded some video.
And so he has:
Mark Saleski is a writer and music obsessive based out of the woods of central New Hampshire. A past contributor to Jazz.com, Blogcritics.org and Salon, he originated several of our weekly features including the Friday Morning Listen, (Cross the) Heartland, WTF! Wednesday, and Sparks Fly on E Street. Follow him on Twitter: @msaleski. Contact Something Else! at [email protected].
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