Well, here’s The Boss covering a Jesse Malin song – it’s the latest single from ‘Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin‘ which is out on 20th September as a 3xLP or 2xCD set on Glassnote Records. All proceeds from the album will benefit Malin’s Sweet Relief artist fund, set up after a rare spinal stroke in May 2023 left him paralysed from the waist down. Jesse Malin has said of this recording that: “Bruce gave it that Stax-soul-thing that we were dreaming of when we recorded the original. It’s so surreal to me.” Malin had originally recorded the song for his 2015 album ‘New York Before the War’. For this new version, Springsteen is backed by Malin’s regular band plus Jake Clemons of his E Street Band on saxophone.
Jesse Malin has enthused over the support that Bruce, and so many others, have generously given for ‘Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin‘ saying: “Bruce’s generosity, honesty and support are equally as powerful as his songwriting and performing. Bruce is one of the guys. He walks it like he talks it. You spend some time with him, and it feels like you’ve known him for years. He’s like my friends in Queens, sitting around talking about Sinatra, the Clash, and the Pogues. He has that passion and excitement for life. While I was working hard on my recovery at a clinic in Argentina, I had no idea that my friends and the producers of this record were reaching out to so many great artists to have them do versions of my songs. When I heard these versions, especially ‘She Don’t Love Me Now’, it took me out of a dark time. I felt excited about life again, in a way that only music can do.”
So who else features on the album? So many people, a veritable Americana who’s who – in fact all these people:
1 Prisoners of Paradise (feat. Bleachers)
2 Oh Sheena (feat. Counting Crows)
3 She Don’t Love Me Now (feat. Bruce Springsteen)
4 Black Haired Girl (feat. Billie Joe Armstrong)
5 Brooklyn (feat. Dinosaur Jr.)
6 About You (feat. Frank Turner)
7 Turn Up the Mains (feat. Alison Mosshart, Wayne Kramer, Tom Morello, Steven Van Zandt, Mike Watt & Joey C.)
8 Room 13 (feat. Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello)
9 Don’t Let Them Take You Down (Beautiful Day) (feat. The Wallflowers)
10 The Way We Used to Roll (feat. Spoon)
11 Shane (feat. Rocky O’Riordan)
12 In the Modern World (feat. Butch Walker)
13 High Lonesome (feat. Susanna Hoffs)
14 Greener Pastures (feat. Graham Parker)
15 Meet Me At The End of the World (feat. Alejandro Escovedo)
16 Death Star (feat. The Hold Steady)
17 Riding on the Subway (feat. Tommy Stinson and Ruby Stinson)
18 St. Mark’s Sunset (feat. The Walker Roaders)
19 Dead On (feat. Ian Hunter)
20 Almost Grown (feat. Danny Clinch and Christopher Thorn with Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country)
21 Shining Down (feat. Aaron Lee Tasjan)
22 When You’re Young (feat. Low Cut Connie)
23 All The Way From Moscow (feat. Willie Nile)
24 No Way Out (feat. Rancid)
25 You Know It’s Dark When Atheists Start to Pray (feat. Gogol Bordello)
26 God Is Dead (feat. Agnostic Front)
27 Frankie (feat. Murphy’s Law)
