There’s a friend of mine won’t listen to any cover versions of Bruce Springsteen songs, he says no-one could do a better version of them than him. He has a fair point, rarely do Springsteen covers sound as good as The Boss himself, but there’s a new generation of singer/songwriters that grew up with his music and whose concert set lists include some tunes from The Boss. Here’s two I think are at least as good as the originals.

First is Glenn Hansard with either The Frames or Swell Season or both, I’m not too sure, doing Drive All Night. It’s a shoddy looking video but the song sounds great.

Then there’s Sara Bareilles doing an evocative version of I’m On Fire, it’s a pity it’s so short!

There’s lots more of these re-imaginings on Springsteen’s youtube channel here.