Last week, Bruce Springsteen launched his soul covers album Only The Strong Survive. Next 12 months, he’ll head out on a large stadium tour with the E Street Band. To promote each endeavors, Springsteen goes to be on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show for 3 straight nights — which, I imply, that’s dedication proper there. The first of these reveals was final night time. You’re by no means going to imagine this, however Jimmy Fallon did some gushing.
In his interview with Fallon, Bruce Springsteen described the method of rehearsing for E Street Band reveals and his choice to file an album of soul covers, scrapping a complete LP earlier than determining what he was doing. He additionally defined a bit about his particular person cowl decisions, which was cool. There was additionally an entire part the place Springsteen talked “myths” that Fallon introduced up — issues like misheard “Thunder Road” lyrics (it’s “Mary’s dress sways” — the unique liner notes have a mistake) and whether or not the Carlton dance relies on the “Dancing In The Dark” video. I couldn’t make it via that complete bit — I’m solely on this planet as soon as — however I did make it to the bit the place Springsteen talked about Taylor Swift.