{"id":806700,"date":"2020-04-22T19:26:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=988628"},"modified":"2020-04-22T19:26:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T01:26:07","slug":"watch-bruce-springsteen-play-jersey-girl-at-jersey-4-jersey-covid-19-relief-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-bruce-springsteen-play-jersey-girl-at-jersey-4-jersey-covid-19-relief-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Bruce Springsteen Play \u2018Jersey Girl\u2019 at Jersey 4 Jersey COVID-19 Relief Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BrucePattyLivestreamScreenshot.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bruce-springsteen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bruce-springsteen\" data-tag=\"bruce-springsteen\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> and wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/patti-scialfa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_patti-scialfa\" data-tag=\"patti-scialfa\">Patti Scialfa<\/a> joined together to perform two songs during the Jersey 4 Jersey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/covid-19\/\" id=\"auto-tag_covid-19\" data-tag=\"covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> relief telethon, which benefits the <a href=\"https:\/\/njprf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re here tonight dedicated to our healthcare workers and of those who\u2019ve lost loved ones,\u201d he said at the start of the show, \u201cand those who are suffering and dying with this terrible disease in our beloved state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They began with \u201cLand of Hope and Dreams,\u201d a moving song about the power and resiliency of the human spirit that Springsteen wrote for the 1999 E Street Band reunion tour. It was followed by commentary and performances by everyone from Jon Stewart, Chris Rock and Stephen Colbert to Halsey and Charlie Puth, who played a cover of Springsteen\u2019s 1973 tune \u201cGrowin\u2019 Up\u201d on the piano.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8hHfTEYt52w?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the broadcast, Springsteen and Scialfa returned to sing his beloved version of the 1980 Tom Waits song \u201cJersey Girl.\u201d Unlike many past renditions of the song, including the famous one on the <em>Live 1975\u201385 box<\/em> set, he did not sing the bonus \u201clittle brat of yours\u201d verse that he wrote himself. It\u2019s the first time he\u2019s performed the song in any capacity since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This was Springsteen\u2019s first performance since his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-surprise-set-light-of-day-asbury-park-940044\/\">surprise appearance<\/a> alongside Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers at the annual Asbury Park Light of Day fundraiser on January 18th. He spoke of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-e-street-band-tour-840807\/\">plans last year for a new E Street Band album<\/a> and tour in 2020. The status of the album is unclear, but the tour will almost certainly not start until 2021 at the absolute soonest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-land-of-hope-and-dreams-jersey-girl-jersey-4-jersey-fundraiser-watch-988628\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa joined together to perform two songs during the Jersey 4 Jersey COVID-19 relief telethon, which benefits the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund. \u201cWe\u2019re here tonight dedicated to our healthcare workers and of those who\u2019ve lost loved ones,\u201d he said at the start of the show, \u201cand those who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 07:09:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}