This week, Bruce Springsteen launched his soul covers album Only The Strong Survive, that includes renditions of Frank Wilson’s “Do I Love You (Indeed I Do),” the Commodores’ “Nightshift,” and “Don’t Play That Song (You Lied),” which was initially written by Ahmet Ertegun and Betty Nelson. This week, he revealed that he’d truly scrapped an “entire record” previous to arriving on the remaining minimize. Speaking to Edith Bowman, Springsteen stated that the preliminary selections “didn’t feel quite right.”
Here’s all the quote, by way of Exclaim:
Initially, it was actually laborious. I used to be choosing materials and I’m going, “It’s hard to sing somebody else’s songs, and get them to sound authentic and it’s coming out of you.” So I made a whole report that I threw out, and it’ll present up in other places, and there have been some good issues on it however didn’t really feel fairly proper.
So I got here throughout this ‘Do I Love You’, the Frank Wilson, Motown rarity, and the States, I assume, nobody had heard it. And I need to attempt that. And so my producer, Ron Aniello, created the observe and the observe was actually good, actually robust. I stated, “Well, if I can get up near Frank Wilson’s range, I’m going to take a swing at it.” And we minimize that, that felt nice.”
I stated nicely, possibly I’ll orient myself in the direction of soul music, as a result of it’s how I grew up, and all my nice mentors had been soul males that got here, Sam Moore and, in fact, James Brown, Smokey Robinson as a author. I imply, simply so many. And the nice singers, David Ruffin, Levi Stubbs, all masters. They had been all my masters and I stated nicely, let me try to sing a few of this materials.
Only The Strong Survive is out now by way of Columbia Records.