

I might have listened to Born to Run over a thousand times. Let me get my Springsteen bona fides out of the way up top: I have been a passionate fan since 1974’s The Wild, the Innocent and E Street Shuffle, first saw him live on the Born to Run tour in ’75, didn’t miss a Northern California concert through the early ’80s. FROM THE SUMMER 2019 ISSUE OF UKULELE | BY BLAIR JACKSONĪ uke album covering Bruce Springsteen songs was bound to happen at some point, though I would have pictured an album of the Boss’ most commercial tunes (“Hungry Heart,” “Glory Days,” “Dancing in the Dark,” etc.) rather than this much hipper idea: The complete 1975 Born to Run album, it’s eight songs performed in order, by eight different artists, about half of them new names to me.
