Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band gave Asbury Park, New Jersey, a show to remember with an epic headlining set at the Sea.Hear.Now festival on Sunday night.
The show was a homecoming for Springsteen and the band, who began playing in and around Asbury Park in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Appropriately, the first half of Sea.Hear.Now's set list drew heavily on material from Springsteen's debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jerseyas well as other Jersey-centric songs. Notably, Springsteen performed songs such as “Blinded by the Light,” “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?”, “Thundercrack” and “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” for the first time in nearly a decade.
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Elsewhere during the concert, Springsteen was joined by his wife, Patti Scialfa, for a performance of “Tougher Than the Rest.” Scialfa recently revealed that she has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare form of blood cancer that has limited her ability to tour with the E Street Band.
The surprises continued during the encore, when Springsteen dusted off “Meeting Across the River” and “Jungleland” from Born to run for the first time on this current tour. He then closed the night with a cover of Tom Waits' “Jersey Girl.”
In all, Springsteen and the E Street Band treated the Asbury Park faithful to a three-hour, 30-song set that will go down not only as a highlight of their current world tour, but in the annals of the band's history.
On Sunday morning, Springsteen made guest appearances during The Gaslight Anthem and Trey Anastasio’s sets on Sea.Hear.Now. He joined fellow New Jersey rockers The Gaslight Anthem for “History Books” and “American Slang,” and sat in with Anastasio for a jam of his own song “Kitty’s Back.”
The night before, Springsteen stopped by The Stone Pony in Asbury Park for a concert. after festival partywhere he covered songs such as Little Richard's “Lucille”, Hooker's “Boom Boom Boom” and Them's “Gloria”.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – Sea.Hear.Now. Tracklist:
lonely day
Blinded by the Light (First play since 2017)
Play video
Does this bus stop at 82nd Street? (Played for the first time since 2017)
Growing up
The promised land
Spirit in the night
Thundercrack (Played for the first time since 2016)
The E Street Shuffle
July 4, Asbury Park (Sandy) (Played for the first time since 2016)
Hungry heart
Local Hero (Debut Tour)
Atlantic city
Tougher Than the Rest (with Patti Scialfa)
Long way home
Street racing
Because the night
She is the one
wrecking ball
The rise
Moors
Thunder Road
Bis:
Meeting on the other side of the river (debut tour)
Jungleland (debut tour)
Born to run
Rosalita (Leave tonight)
Bobby Jean
Dancing in the dark
Freezing on Tenth Avenue
Spin and scream
Jersey Girl (debut tour)
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